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Alvtegen, Karin

Karin Alvtegen was born in Huskvarna in the Swedish province of Småland. Her parents were teachers. She specialised in music at upper-secondary school and later worked as props manager at Jönköping County Theatre. She claims she never dreamt of writing books, although her maternal grandfather, brother of Astrid Lindgren, was an author. Karin Alvtegen moved to Stockholm in 1985 where she co...

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Dickson McCunn

Gender: Male

The author John Buchan’s most original detective is the retired grocer Dickson McCunn, a 60+ man with a romantic heart and a commercially inclined brain. He is withdrawn and his appearance is rather nondescript, and when he becomes involved in criminal cases he surprises his friends as well as his enemies with his resolute actions.

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