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Lockridge, Richard

An American journalist and author, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he also grew up. After finishing school, he studied at Kansas City Junior College as well as the University of Missouri in Columbia. He curtailed his studies when he was conscripted for military service in 1918, and when – after a short time – he had finished that, he had various jobs such as a shop assistant and a fairground w...

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Maria Kallio

Gender: Female

She was only 23 when she got her first job with the police, but she has worked her way up to a senior post in the criminal investigation department in the Finnish town of Esbo. She has also grown older in Leena Lehtolainen’s books about her, got married to Antti Johannes Sarkela and had children. With her red hair and in good physical condition, Mario Kallio is a tough (and if necessary even h...

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