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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
Timothy Trant
Gender: Male
Police detective in New York, well educated and always snobbishly dressed in tailored suits. Timothy ‘Tim’ Trant is stubborn, sometimes unscrupulous, when he carries out his murder investigations, and is in the habit of putting pressure on a suspect when he is actually gathering evidence against another. The books are written by Q. Patrick and Patrick Quentin, pseudonyms for Richard Webb and/or Hu...