Photo: Roger Tillberg / TT (1983)
Sample of authors
Lewis, Mary
Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and children’s books authors of the second half of the 20th century, but she had a reputation for unpredictability. In the 1950s, for example, she suddenly took a ten-year break from writing crime novels in order to focus on short stories and children’s books.
Mary Milne was born in...
Literary figures
Philip St. Ives
Gender: Male
As a journalist, he had a lot of shady contacts, which he makes use of when as a private detective he serves as a courier between crime victims and criminals when it comes to, for example, returning stolen goods. Philip St. Ives is single, divorced with a son. He is on the side of the villains as long as they don’t try to cheat him – which they often try to do according to author Oliver Bleeck (ps...