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Portrait image of Peter Høeg Photo: Ole Gunnar Onsøien (2015) / NTB / TT

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Høeg, Peter

The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother taught Greek and Latin in upper-secondary school and his father was a lawyer. He attended that smart Bording free school, but was expelled in 1973 on account of his behaviour. He eventually earned his baccalaureate at the Fredriksberg upper-secondary school in 1976.
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Archy (Archibald) McNally

Gender: Male

He was thrown out of Yale Law School, but daddy Prescott still employed him in his respectable law firm, where the son got to carry out ‘discreet investigations’. He meets with amazing successes, mainly on account of his somewhat unorthodox working methods, according to author Lawrence Sanders. ‘Archy’ McNally is almost 40 years old, talks like a teenager and loves women, clothes and hats.

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