Photo: Roger Tillberg / TT (1983)
Sample of authors
Lewis, Mary
Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and children’s books authors of the second half of the 20th century, but she had a reputation for unpredictability. In the 1950s, for example, she suddenly took a ten-year break from writing crime novels in order to focus on short stories and children’s books.
Mary Milne was born in...
Literary figures
Dagobert Trostler
Gender: Male
A rich, and in posh circles highly regarded amateur criminologist and music-lover in the Vienna of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, often called Detective Dagobert in the short stories that author Balduin Groller (pseudonym for Adalbert Goldscheider) wrote about him. Dagobert Trostler is a trim middle-aged bon viveur and bachelor with a dark beard and hair (although thin on top), glowing dark eyes...