Happy Birthday, Exbrayat!
Who is Exbrayat?
He invented the genre of the humorous detective novel and wrote more than 100 books (plus several plays and films), on which his first name, Charles, never appeared.
You can read more about him at the Exbrayat blog that my good friend Jackie Danicki, and her boyfriend, Antoine Clarke, Exbrayat's grandson, set up in honor of Exbrayat's 100th birthday, May 5th. Exbrayat's blog is here. More news here about the various Exbrayat centenary celebrations.