The Chinese master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu appeared in 13 novels by Sax Rohmer beginning in 1913.
He received his main opposition from Sir Denis Nayland Smith, loosely connected with Scotland Yard.
Smith’s sidekick was Dr. Petrie.
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) by Oscar Wilde includes the statement “I can resist everything except temptation”.
Ernest Hemingway was married four times.
According to the Book of Genesis, Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar.
Medea was the Princess of Colchis and the wife of Jason, the King of Iolcus. Her father was King Aeetes of Colchis. Medea, by Euripides, was first performed in 431 B.C.
The title of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel “gone with the wind”comes from a poem by Ernest Dowson, a poet of the 1890s, called “Non Sum Qualis Eram,” or “Cynara.”
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon created the Hardy Boys.