Sample of authors
Groller, Balduin
At the end of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, Austrian author Adalbert Goldscheider wrote a large number or novels, short stories and comedies under the pseudonym Balduin Groller. The books that received the most attention were the crime short stories about Dagobert Trostler, known as ‘The Sherlock Holmes of Vienna’: In Queen’s Quorum (1951), Ellery Queen lists Trostler as one of t...
Literary figures
Emily Pollifax
Gender: Female
Elderly American widow, 60+, bored with tea parties and charity work, who applies for a job as a ‘secret agent’ with the CIA. She is allowed to try and manages it so well that she gets a permanent job and becomes the main character in a suite of novels by Dorothy Gilman. Mrs Emily Pollifax is quick-witted, articulate and has a brown belt in karate. She eventually marries the patient Cyrus Reed.