Fav authors: Rider Haggard, Rafael Sabatini, Raymond Chandler, Terry Pratchett, Henry Treece, Fredric Brown (mysteries more than his sci-fi), Talbot Mundy, Sax Rohmer, Conan Doyle, Robert Howard, P.C. Wren, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich (and his various pseudonyms).