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Sample of authors
Theorin, Johan
Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his family in 1964. He finds his inspiration on the island of Öland where he used to spend his summer holidays as a child. Theorin completed upper-secondary school in Lindesberg in 1983. After a year of military service followed he was an exchange student at Middlebury College, ...
Literary figures
John Poole
Gender: Male
When Henry Wade (pseudonym for Henry Aubrey-Fletcher) introduced the pipe-smoking police detective John Poole in 1934, he was a new type of police officer in crime fiction: well brought-up, charming, with an academic education and from a good family. He is just over 180cm tall, athletically built, with a firm mouth and grey eyes. He becomes a police officer when he is only 23 years old, and a...