Sample of authors
Cody, Liza
Pseudonym for Liza Nassim, English crime fiction writer, born in London where she grew up. She had problems in school – it later transpired that she suffered from dyslexia, and so she put her efforts into an artistic career. She studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and the Royal Academy School of Art in London. For a while, she worked as a visual artist, but with little success, s...
Literary figures
Walter Purbright
Gender: Male
Detective inspector in the little fictive town of Flaxborough in England.He is a decidedly anonymous person without a family. Walter Purbright has an everyday appearance, but he is honest and a good police officer who in a dozen commended novels by Colin Watson with stoic calm deals with the very entertaining and sometimes absurd murder cases he investigates as well as his not particularly...