Sample of authors
Vidocq, Eugène François
Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and master-of-disguise Eugène François Vidocq. And one can well ask whether anybody has written an autobiography with such great literary influence. He also features under his own name as well as rather obvious aliases in a number of books, and has been the subject of a lot of films, T...
Literary figures
Henry Tibbett
Gender: Male
He starts as an ordinary detective inspector, but works his way up to become a chief superintendent with the London Police, in a suite of novels by Patricia Moyes. Henry Tibbett is a friendly, unobtrusive gentleman with an ordinary appearance, but he is also a skilled police officer greatly respected by his colleagues. He does, however, get quite a lot of help from his wife, Emmy, who quite...