Sample of authors
Adler-Olsen, Jussi
The Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen (his real name is Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen) chose, at the tender age of five, to call himself Jussi after the Swedish opera singer Jussi Björling. He was born in Copenhagen as the youngest of four children. His father was a consultant psychiatrist, which meant that the family often moved from one mental hospital to another. Between the formative ...
Literary figures
Milton Milodragovitch
Gender: Male
Like the author James Crumley’s other private detective, C.W. Sughrue, Milton ‘Milo’ Milodragovitch is a private detective in little Meriweather in Montana. He is an alcoholic, middle-aged war veteran, heavily into drugs, and he likes the ladies. Thanks to an inheritance, he can live with no cares, and make himself unpopular with the authorities. He does his detective work with one finger, but he...