Sample of authors
Orczy, Emmuska
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi, or Emmuska, which she preferred to be called, was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary. Her parents were Baron Félix Orczy de Orczi and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege. Both parents were descended from a prominent Austro-Hungarian noble family and related to many others. Félix Orczy was the son of a royal councillor and a well-...
Literary figures
Hugh Curtis
Gender: Male
Young, ambitious, newly-employed journalist on the London newspaper The Record. He is charming and has good looks, but nevertheless has problems in his job – especially when he must compete against Mollie Bourne, a beautiful, red-haired star reporter on the competitor The Courier. But they get on well, sometimes cooperating, and create headlines by solving murder cases in three books by Paul S...