Painting by Henry L. Gates (1927)
Sample of authors
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
Literary figures
Mordecai Tremaine
Gender: Male
His full name is the grandiose Mordecai Euripides Tremaine, but he himself is a warm-hearted, retired tobacconist and amateur criminologist in London who spends his time reading romantic novels and solving crimes. He stumbles across murders or is drawn into cases by his good friend Jonathan Boyce of Scotland Yard. Francis Duncan (pseudonym for William Underhill) has written five novels about him.