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Sample of authors
Collins, Max Allan
A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of a few years as a student, he has remained faithful to the town of his birth all his life, and he still lives there. He attended Muscatine Community College 1966–68, and then studied, among other things, Art at the University of Iowa in Iowa City 1968–72. In 1968 he married Ba...
Literary figures
Harry Kvist
Gender: Male
An odd character and an amateur detective: an ex-boxer and prison inmate who works as a debt-collector, is bi-sexual and drinks too much. The setting is Stockholm in the 1930s in a trio of novels by Martin Holmén. Harry Kvist is single, with few friends (but a lot of acquaintances), not particularly bright, but well-built, and he all too often uses his fists when trouble arises.