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Peter Macklin is the central character in a series of crime fiction/mystery novels by American novelist Loren D. Estleman. Macklin is the Nine-to-Five Killer – a hitman for the Detroit mob.
The Brock and Kolla series is a series of crime fiction novels by Australian author Barry Maitland. The series is also referred to as the Kathy and Brock series. This London Metropolitan Police team is one of the first male-female teams as central characters in fiction. Brock is older and more experienced, whereas Kathy is […]
Barry Maitland is a Scottish-Australian novelist of crime fiction/mystery novels. He is the author of the Kathy and Brock series. Before becoming an author, Maitland studied and worked in architecture and then moved to Australia where he became a professor at the University of Newcastle. In 2000, he gave up his day job in favour […]
Milan Jacovich (pronounced My-lan Yock-o-vitch) is the central character in a series of mystery novels by American author Les Roberts. Set in Cleveland, Milan is a battered Slovenian-American private eye who has a taste for Stroh’s and likes to dance to polka. Milan is an ex-cop and a Vietnam vet. He has a strong-willed Serbian […]
Saxon is the protagonist in a series of mystery novels by American novelist Les Roberts. Saxon is in Los Angeles to make it as an actor, so in order to stay sane between acting gigs, he works as a private investigator.
Les Roberts is an American author of mystery novels. Before getting into the world of fiction writing, Les worked in Hollywood for 24 years, where he wrote and produced over 2,500 half-hour segments of television. During that time, he wrote for The Hollywood Squares, The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, […]
Inspector Alan Grant is the central character in a series of mystery novels by Scottish novelist Josephine Tey. Grant is an inspector with Scotland Yard. The most famous novel of the series, The Daughter of Time, was named the greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers’ Association in 1990.
Josephine Tey was the pen name of Scottish author Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-1952), who wrote mystery novels. She also wrote historical fiction as Gordon Daviot. She came up with the pen name “Josephine Tey” from her mother’s first name (Josephine) and her grandmother’s maiden name (Tey). She is best known for her novel The Daughter of […]
Stephen R. Donaldson is an American novelist of fantasy, sci-fi and mystery novels. His work is complex, abstract and bleak with a lot of imagination, vivid characterizations and rapid pace. The work he is most well-known for his Thomas Covenant series. He has another major series called the Gap Cycle. He also writes under the […]
Margery Allingham (1904-1966) was an English author of crime fiction, best known for her novels featuring Albert Campion. She started out writing for The Strand, but stopped once her Albert Campion series gained enough success. Allingham died in 1966 from breast cancer.