Sample of authors
Caspary, Vera
The American author Vera Caspary spent a great deal of time and effort writing her popular screen and stage plays, but she is best known for her crime fiction, a reputation that largely rests on the psychological thriller Laura (1943), an important classic, a major box office success in 1944 and an equally popular Broadway play in 1945. Her novels have made a comeback in the 2000s after being...
Literary figures
Hack Bohannon
Gender: Male
A tall, slim private eye and former police officer with black hair like a native American, and who runs a horse ranch in California. His great sorrow is his wife, Linda, who is in a coma at a care home after being brutally raped. In the books by Joseph Hanse, Hack Bohannan is always dressed in jeans and cowboy boots, and he avoids contact with women. In general, he prefers animals rather than...