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Kallentoft, Mons
Mons Kallentoft is a Swedish writer and journalist born in Ljungsbro near Linköping. He began to write at the age of fourteen when he was bed-ridden after an operation. After leaving school he worked in Sweden for a while. He then moved to Madrid in order to write. While there he worked on the draft of his debut novel Pesetas (2000). By the time it was published he was back in Sweden where he ...
Literary figures
Blotto (Devereux) Lyminster
Gender: Male
The honourable Devereux Lyminster, better known as ‘Blotto’, comes from a respected noble family. He is well-built, strong and handsome, a famous cricketer and has a brain like a hen. When it comes to solving murder cases in a series of farcical crime novels by Simon Brett, which are set in the 1920s, he thus often plays the role of a stupid ‘Watson’ to his beautiful, smart sister Honoria, called...