Franco Enna

He was born in Castrogiovanni (now known as Enna), Sicily, on the 16 September 1921, the son of a police sergeant,[1] and died at Lugano, Switzerland, on 19 July 1990.

He was best known as Franco Enna, but also wrote under his true name as well as many English pseudonyms, including Lou Happings, Andrew Maxwell, James Douglas, Thomas Freed, Richard Shell, Lewis Allen Scott, Herry Graham, Max Reditone, and Carlton Gibbs.

His early detective novels were largely set in foreign locations, but in the 1970s he moved to more familiar Italian locales, notably in Mamma lupara ("Mother shotgun") published in 1972, and in the series of books about Federico Sartori.

[1] Enna's best known character was inspector Federico Sartori,[2] a Sicilian police officer plagued by incurable nostalgia, who was led easily by adventure and by love through intricate and compelling stories.

Around this character Franco Enna developed a wealth of fictional episodes which had considerable public success and earned him the nickname of "the Italian Simenon".