Sample of authors
Keeler, Harry Stephen
The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy. They have been described as surreal and absurd, and some even as unreadable. He made up his own vocabulary and dialects, and he completely disregarded logical plotlines.
Keeler published nothing in English towards the end of his life, but a...
Literary figures
Amelia Butterworth
Gender: Female
Araminta ”Amelia” Butterworth is a middle-aged, pleasantly curious and gregarious maiden assistant to the detective Ebenezer Gryce in a handful of stories by the American author A.K. Green. Miss Butterworth was a precursor and a source of inspiration for other woman spinster sleuths such as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.