Sample of authors
Hiaasen, Carl
Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and author of thrillers. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is of Norwegian descent. He was a great nature lover even as a child, and became an investigative journalist in order to look into the exploitation of the Florida wetlands. His father gave him a typewriter when he was six years old; at high school he co-founded the satirical magazine More...
Literary figures
Amelia Butterworth
Gender: Female
Araminta ”Amelia” Butterworth is a middle-aged, pleasantly curious and gregarious maiden assistant to the detective Ebenezer Gryce in a handful of stories by the American author A.K. Green. Miss Butterworth was a precursor and a source of inspiration for other woman spinster sleuths such as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.