Anniversaries, 1 November
Arthur Morrison
Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic portrayals of London's East End and his stories about the private detective Martin Hewitt.
Morrison was born in Poplar, a working-class district in London's East End. His father was an engine fitter. Morrison was ashamed of his background, and he later invented details about his childhood and parents. As a result, little is known about his early life except that he did...
Theme article
History of crime fiction
By: Johan Wopenka
Literary figure
Hugh Westlake
Gender: Male
When he was only 31 years old, general practitioner Dr Hugh Westlake becomes a widower and is left alone with his little daughter Dawn. He settled in a little town in eastern USA, opened a medical practice which wasn’t particularly successful and succeeds time after time in becoming involved in strange murder cases with elements of pure horror. He solves these with Dawn’s help, we are told by Jon...