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Sample of authors
Jónasson, Ragnar
The Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson was born in Reykjavik. He grew up in a writing family where several family members are authors. As a teenager, he started to read crime fiction and translated a long row of Agatha Christie’s books into Icelandic, one a year for 14 years starting when he was seventeen. Ragnar Jónasson studied Law and while studying he worked as a journalist for radio and TV on I...
Literary figures
William Meredith
Gender: Male
A conscientious murder investigator who solves cases in various parts of England in a suite of detective stories by John Bude (pseudonym for Ernest Elmore). William Meredith is a patient gentleman, open for tips about possible alternative solutions; he listens carefully to what colleagues – ranging from village constables to chief constables – say. He is of normal build, with an everyday but sym...