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Sample of authors
Anderson, Lin
Lin (Linda) Anderson was born in Greenock, western Scotland. Her parents were of Scottish and Irish descent. Her father was a detective in the CID, and Anderson read Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie from an early age. She has attended several universities in Scotland. In the 1980s, she lived in Nigeria for a few years. It was not until the end of the 1990s, after she had raised three children...
Literary figures
Den gamle i hörnet
Gender: Male
What his real name is, we don’t know – the name Bill Own is mentioned on one occasion, but everything points to that not being correct. Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote three collections of short stories, in which the old, rather grumpy and inaccessible man sits at a corner table in a café, ties complicated knots in a piece of string and solves the even more complicated criminal cases that jour...