Sample of authors
Hodgson, William Hope
William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and brothers. He became a sailor at the age of thirteen and eventually received his mate’s certificate. Life at sea did not suit him, however, and in 1899 he settled in Blackburn where he opened a school of physical culture. Hodgson had to work extra as a reporter and p...
Literary figures
Sarah Keate
Gender: Female
Young, intelligent nurse who works at a hospital as well as privately. She is careful and conscientious, and soon discovers that something is wrong – which it always is in the novels by Mignon G. Eberhart. Sarah Keate is a fairly good amateur detective, but to solve cases she is often assisted by the investigations carried out by police officer Lance O’Leary – but they don’t work together.