Sample of authors
Futrelle, Jacques
The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he went down with the Titanic. He was only thirty-seven years old when he drowned, taking six or seven recently finished short stories about the original amateur sleuth, the super-intelligent genius Professor Augustus S.F.X Van Dusen, known as The Thinking Machine, into the...
Literary figures
Hugh Westlake
Gender: Male
When he was only 31 years old, general practitioner Dr Hugh Westlake becomes a widower and is left alone with his little daughter Dawn. He settled in a little town in eastern USA, opened a medical practice which wasn’t particularly successful and succeeds time after time in becoming involved in strange murder cases with elements of pure horror. He solves these with Dawn’s help, we are told by Jon...