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Sample of authors
Hayder, Mo
The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic family by leaving school at the age of fifteen. She, herself, for a long time considered it to be a considerably greater achievement to be arrested by the police than to gain a place at a university. Just before her sixteenth birthday, she left for London, and for many years...
Literary figures
Den gamle i hörnet
Gender: Male
What his real name is, we don’t know – the name Bill Own is mentioned on one occasion, but everything points to that not being correct. Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote three collections of short stories, in which the old, rather grumpy and inaccessible man sits at a corner table in a café, ties complicated knots in a piece of string and solves the even more complicated criminal cases that jour...