Sample of authors
Futrelle, Jacques
The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he went down with the Titanic. He was only thirty-seven years old when he drowned, taking six or seven recently finished short stories about the original amateur sleuth, the super-intelligent genius Professor Augustus S.F.X Van Dusen, known as The Thinking Machine, into the...
Literary figures
Fergus O’Breen
Gender: Male
Wild, red-haired Irishman who calls himself ‘The O’Breen’ and is a private detective in Los Angeles. He has no memory of his mother, his father is an alcoholic, but their son does OK in life, we are assured by his creator Anthony Boucher (pseudonym for William Anthony Parker ‘Tony’ White). Fergus O’Breen has a strong-willed sister, is well-read and is allergic to cats, as well as having good conta...