Painting by Henry L. Gates (1927)
Sample of authors
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
Literary figures
Timothy Trant
Gender: Male
Police detective in New York, well educated and always snobbishly dressed in tailored suits. Timothy ‘Tim’ Trant is stubborn, sometimes unscrupulous, when he carries out his murder investigations, and is in the habit of putting pressure on a suspect when he is actually gathering evidence against another. The books are written by Q. Patrick and Patrick Quentin, pseudonyms for Richard Webb and/or Hu...