Sample of authors
Vidocq, Eugène François
Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and master-of-disguise Eugène François Vidocq. And one can well ask whether anybody has written an autobiography with such great literary influence. He also features under his own name as well as rather obvious aliases in a number of books, and has been the subject of a lot of films, T...
Literary figures
C.D. Sloan
Gender: Male
An esteemed Chief Inspector has many names – not least when it comes to Christopher Dennis Sloan in the books by Catherine Aird. For colleagues and the public (and readers) he is known as C.D., for relatives and friends as ‘Seedy’. He is of early middle age, works in the fictional county of West Calleshire in England, where he was also born, and is married to Margaret who – in the middle of a murd...