Photo: Philip Dunn/REX / TT (1995)
Sample of authors
Peters, Ellis
Because readers know the British author Edith Mary Pargeter both by her own and her pen name Ellis Peters, some of her novels have been published with both names, equal in size, on the cover. This has caused some confusion in library catalogues and bibliographies.
Edith Pargeter was born in the village of Horsehay, Shropshire, near the England/Wales border, and she lived there practically all...
Literary figures
Theodolinda Bonner
Gender: Female
In order to support her brother after their father’s suicide, Theodolinda ‘Dol’ Bonner starts her own detective agency in New York – and does so with success, according to her creator Rex Stout. She is one of the very few colleagues that Stout’s enormous detective Nero Wolfe has respect for on the occasions when their paths cross. She is a beautiful, hardboiled feminist who calmly explains that sh...