Sample of authors
Gaboriau, Émile
While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime fiction, Émile Gaboriau has been cited as the father of the crime novel. He was the first to use at least four defining elements of the genre: 1) He wrote briefly and succinctly compared to his contemporaries and his novels are driven by the crime plot. 2) His protagonists are ...
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...