Sample of authors
Wells, Carolyn
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...
Literary figures
Spenser
Gender: Male
Former state police officer who was sacked for disobeying orders, and who has instead set up his own business as a hard-boiled private detective in Chicago. Robert B. Parker has written a whole row of novels about Spenser, whose first name is never mentioned. He is very strong, violent and – in fact – interested in cooking. For many years he has had a relationship with school psychologist Susan Si...