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Sample of authors
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
Tish (Letitia) Carberry
Gender: Female
A jolly and good-hearted middle-aged spinster, who lives on money she has inherited, and lodges with a nephew, Charlie Sands. She is the main character in a whole row of short stories (but no novels) by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Together with her friends Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, Tish Carberry often goes travelling, which leads to her becoming involved in various dramatic events, which...