Sample of authors
Forbes, Colin
Colin Forbes is the pseudonym of the British author Raymond Harold Sawkins who was born in Hampstead, London. His first published novel, Snow on High Ground (1966), was followed by a string of novels of which some, like his first book, were published under his own name and others under the pseudonyms Richard Raine or Jay Bernard. He later denounced his early work and claims Tramp in Armour...
Literary figures
Harry Barnett
Gender: Male
A tired and shabby middle-aged British man with an invalid’s pension, who works as a house caretaker in Greece in Robert Goddard’s first book about him. His major interest is to eat and drink, but for various reasons he becomes involved in a number of criminal cases; in one of them, too, he gets to find out that he has an unknown adult son. He gets married and settles in Vancouver – but is never...