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Portrait of Colin Forbes Photo: United News/Popperfoto via Getty Images (1983)

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Forbes, Colin

Colin Forbes is the pseudonym of the British author Raymond Harold Sawkins who was born in Hampstead, London. His first published novel, Snow on High Ground (1966), was followed by a string of novels of which some, like his first book, were published under his own name and others under the pseudonyms Richard Raine or Jay Bernard. He later denounced his early work and claims Tramp in Armour...

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A Danish journalist and private detective, whose name is never actually mentioned in the 13 books about him that Dan Turèll has written. The Nameless is an ordinary, rather worn-out gentleman who lives on his own in a boring flat and comes across crimes in shabby settings, inhabited by odd people. He solves cases with the help of Superintendent Ehlers – and the beautiful lawyer Gitte Bristol, wh...

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