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Portrait image of Mika Waltari Photo: Pietinen (1934) CC BY-SA 4.0

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Waltari, Mika

The Finnish author Mika Waltari is considered one of the foremost Nordic authors of the 20th century. Many of his books are classics, probably best-known is the historical novel Sinuhe the Egyptian (1945, Sinuhe, egyptiläinen). He was also a poet and playwright, and he wrote crime stories, non-fiction, short stories, travel writing, and for a period comic strips. His books have been translated ...

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Tim Frazer

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An English engineer, part-owner of a little firm that goes bankrupt because of his partner’s extravagant habits. Instead, Tim Frazer became a secret agent and ‘spy hunter’ for a similarly secret British security service, and is successful in that role. He is young, handsome, is linguistically very gifted and has no family of his own. When Francis Durbridge’s novels about him were turned into a TV...

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