Sample of authors
Elkins, Aaron
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College, Manhattan (BA 1956), Madison University of Arizona, Tucson (MA 1960), and received a doctorate in Education from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976. He has also taught at universities, primarily in California, but also in Heidelberg, Germany, between 1976 and...
Literary figures
Charles Paris
Gender: Male
Careless, slightly alcoholic actor with more resting periods than working periods. He is of upper middle age, looks a bit the worse for wear but nice all the less, and he likes women, author Simon Brett assures us. Charles Paris lives in a small furnished bedsitter, and likes to socialise with his wife – they did, however, separate several years ago. He is a busy amateur detective even though he s...