Photo: ANL/REX / TT (1956)
Sample of authors
Canning, Victor
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
Literary figures
Andy Blake
Gender: Male
The handsome, quiet antiques dealer Andrew “Andy” Blake is married to the adventurous, beautiful Arabella, or Arab. They are an ill-matched, but happy, couple. Arab is the driving force in a series of entertaining, almost farcical, books by the American author Richard Powell in which the couple fight Nazis and other criminals around the United States.