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Sample of authors
Connelly, Michael
Michael Connelly is an American author of crime fiction born in Philadelphia. At the age of twelve, he moved with his family to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School. He began to study for a building construction major at the University of Florida, Gainesville, but did not do as well as he expected. A keen admirer of Raymond Chandler, he decided to do a...
Literary figures
Emma Graham
Gender: Female
She is only twelve years old, but she already works as a waitress in her mother’s old and now rather shabby hotel in the countryside near La Porte in Maryland, and also as a youth reporter for a little local newspaper. But above all, the sharp and humorous – but also very manipulative – Emma Graham is interested in criminal cases, usually old ones. And she solves them in four detective stories for...