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Sample of authors
Dahl, Kjell Ola
Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo and Bærum, where he attended upper-secondary school until 1977. He went on to the University of Oslo, and spent some years travelling, studying and working as, among other things, a janitor, market dealer, taxi driver, teacher, dustman and waiter. During this period he g...
Literary figures
Hugh Westlake
Gender: Male
When he was only 31 years old, general practitioner Dr Hugh Westlake becomes a widower and is left alone with his little daughter Dawn. He settled in a little town in eastern USA, opened a medical practice which wasn’t particularly successful and succeeds time after time in becoming involved in strange murder cases with elements of pure horror. He solves these with Dawn’s help, we are told by Jon...