Photo: Aftonbladet (publ. 1954) / TT
Sample of authors
Lang, Maria
Maria Lang is the pen name of the teacher and head mistress Dagmar (Maria) Lange, one of Sweden’s most popular, but also most criticised, crime novelists. Lange and Stieg Trenter dominated the Swedish crime fiction scene in the 1950s and ‘60s. In the media they were referred to as King Stieg and Queen Maria. Dagmar Lange was born in Västerås. The family moved to Lindesberg in 1915 where her fathe...
Literary figures
Li Yan
Gender: Male
A young detective inspector in Beijing, China, who is always well dressed, polite (even when he is angry) and liked by women. A female police boss, Mei Ling, is in love with him, but Li Yan nevertheless starts a rather messy relationship with the internationally renowned American pathologist Margaret Campbell in six books and one long short story by Scottish author Peter May. Which results in...