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Sample of authors
Carlsson, Christoffer
Christoffer Carlsson grew up a rather lonely child in the small community of Skedala "in the gap between Halmstad and Simlångsdalen along national trunk road 25". His mother is a police clerk and his father a former car mechanic. Books were not common in the house when he was a boy. He discovered them on his own by means of the local mobile library. "No one else knows just how cool this is," he ...
Literary figures
Dangerous Davies
Gender: Male
A worn-out, tired detective constable in London. His first name is unknown, everybody calls him ‘Dangerous’ which is pure satire, his creator Leslie Thomas carefully points out. ‘Dangerous’ Davies is single, middle-aged, shabbily dressed, has a grey face, rents a room from a strict elderly lady who forces him to let his St Bernhard dog, Kitty, live in a scrap car. But he nevertheless manages to so...