Created by Yoyne (Jonas) Kreppel (1874-1940) “Don’t you dare move a muscle, you murderer….Or I’ll shoot you down like the dog you are.” — Max is no sissy! At first I thought it was a joke — a long-delayed Mel Brooks project, possibly still in development. Certainly the over-boiled publisher's hype from 2025 suggested somebody's … Continue reading Max Spitzkopf
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Hanns Gross & Karl Werthen
Created by J. Sydney Jones Real-life criminalogist HANNS GROSS and fictional attorney/private investigator KARL WERTHEN are the heroes of a series of intricately plotted historical mysteries by author J. Sydney Jones set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. Often referred to as "the father of criminology," Doktor Hanns Gustav Adolf Gross (1847-1915) was an Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate who … Continue reading Hanns Gross & Karl Werthen