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Davidsen, Leif
Leif Davidsen is a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring town of Bogerup. After leaving school in 1967, he spent a year as an exchange student in a high school in Middletown, New Jersey. Back in Denmark, he studied journalism, graduating in 1976. He began to write poetry during this period, and some of his poems were published in...
Literary figures
Roger Sheringham
Gender: Male
Bestseller-writer and crime reporter, born in 1891, and the main character in a suite of whodunnits by Anthony Berkeley (Cox). Roger Sheringham is short in stature, plump and talkative, smokes a pipe, loves beer and provides explanations for various murder cases – sometimes he is right, sometimes not. In the earliest books, there is something paradoxical about him, but as he grows older he b...