Sample of authors
Sapper
Pseudonym for Englishman (Herman) Cyril McNeile, who – using the alias Sappar – was one of the best-selling English-language authors in the inter-war years. His simplistic and partisan nationalism, together with racist and fascist ideas, made him controversial already during his lifetime, and have meant that his books about the British officer and superman Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond are still used in...
Literary figures
MacDougal Duff
Gender: Male
Mac Duff, as he is known by his friends, is a professor of History, based in New York and Michigan. Charlotte Armstrong wrote three whodunits about him early in her career. MacDougal Duff is tall and thin, with large knotty hands, and is rather abrupt in his manner and his speech. He doesn’t have much of a profile but he is an original amateur detective who solves murder mysteries by, for e...