Sample of authors
Mason, A.E.W.
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was a British author born in London. He attended Dulwich College and Trinity College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in literature in 1888. He engaged in amateur dramatics at university and also wrote his own plays. After graduating, he unsuccessfully tried the stage. Encouraged by his friend Oscar Wilde he turned to fiction instead, and successfully published an...
Literary figures
Richard Thornhill
Gender: Male
An experienced police detective who works in the fictive town of Lydmouth in the middle of the last century. He is married to Edith and they have two children, but he is not really happy with either the town or the marriage. When Richard Thornhill meets journalist Jill Francis, they start a relationship, at the same time that they – each on their own, but sometimes together – investigate a ser...