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Schulman, Ninni
The Swedish author Ninni Schulman was born as Karin Jessica Christina Olofsdotter-Jansson at Rämmen in Värmland province, and she grew up in nearby Lesjöfors. She attended upper-secondary school at Spångbergagymnasiet in Filipstad until 1992. She then moved to Uppsala where she lived while attending the journalism programme at Bona Folkhögskola in Motala between 1993 and 1995. After a few years at...
Literary figures
Henri Bencolin
Gender: Male
Bencolin is a sardonic gentleman, with a high position in the Paris police force and is described as a ‘Mephistopheles smoking a cigar’. Little is known about his background and private life, but he is described as rather unfeeling, even cruel, and lives entirely for solving what are called ‘impossible crimes’ in John Dickson Carr’s earliest novels with elements of horror. On occasion, Bencolin is...