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Sample of authors
Sten, Viveca
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
Literary figures
Basil Willing
Gender: Male
Dr. Willing is the head of a psychiatric clinic in New York where he is often hired by, for example, the FBI to solve complex murder mysteries in thrillers and whodunits by Helen McCloy. Several are crime classics. Willing’s mother is Russian and his father American, and he has a man servant by the name of Juniper. After many years as a bachelor he eventually marries and Austrian woman, Gisela v...