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Cormac McCarthy is an American author and playwright of gothic, western and post-apocalyptic fiction. He is the author of the Border Trilogy. His novels No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, The Road and Child of God have all been adapted to film. McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel […]

James A. Michener (1907-1997) was an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction. He is well-known for the amount of research that went into his work in addition to the length of his novels (900 pages was a short novel for him). Michener was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Tales […]

D.I. Peter Shaw is the main protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by British author Jim Kelly. Detective Inspector Peter Shaw is joined by Detective Sergeant George Valentine in the county of Norfolk, England. The series is sometimes referred to as simply the D.I. Peter Shaw series and other times using both of […]

Philip Dryden is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by British novelist Jim Kelly. The Philip Dryden character is a journalist who is based out of Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Jim Kelly is an English novelist of crime fiction novels. He writes the Philip Dryden and D.I. Peter Shaw & D.S. George Valentine series. He has won the CWA Dagger in the Library award and the New Angle Prize for Literature. In addition to being a novelist, Kelly is also a journalist and education correspondent […]

Donald Lam and Bertha Cool are the protagonists in a series of detective fiction by American author A.A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner). Unlike most detectives of his time, Donald Lam is 5’6″, 130 lbs., often ends up in fights and usually comes out on the losing end of them. Lam starts out as an employee […]

Doug Selby is the protagonist in a series of detective fiction by American author Erle Stanley Gardner. Selby starts out as D.A. in the rural fictional town of Madison City, California. He is only worried about justice, rather than his winning percentage as a prosecuting attorney.

Perry Mason is the protagonist in a series of detective fiction novels and stories by American novelist Erle Stanley Gardner. Mason works as a defense lawyer, but usually ends up working as a detective in the process in order to clear his client’s name. The series was adapted to the TV series of the same […]

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was an American author of detective fiction. He was best known for creating the Perry Mason character and also wrote Cool and Lam series as A.A. Fair as well as the Doug Selby series. Before getting into writing, Erle was working as a lawyer, so he began writing stories for pulp […]

Monster Hunter International is a series of thriller novels by American novelist Larry Correia. In this world, protagonist Owen Zastava Pitt finds out that monsters are all real and kept secret from the public, and now Owen has been recruited by a monster eradication group called Monster Hunter International.