Photo: Roger Tillberg / TT (1983)
Sample of authors
Lewis, Mary
Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and children’s books authors of the second half of the 20th century, but she had a reputation for unpredictability. In the 1950s, for example, she suddenly took a ten-year break from writing crime novels in order to focus on short stories and children’s books.
Mary Milne was born in...
Literary figures
Enzo Macleod
Gender: Male
British, famous forensic technician of Scottish-Italian heritage. After a trying divorce, he moves to France and is employed as a university teacher. He re-marries, but becomes a widower. Enzo Macleod is middle-aged, heavily built and (according to his creator Peter May) has a complex personality as well as a boorish temperament – which affects his two daughters, one from each marriage.