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Sample of authors
Dibdin, Michael
Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern Ireland in 1954 where Dibdin went to school until 1965. He graduated with a degree in English from the University of Sussex, Brighton, in 1968. He then attended teachers college at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, graduating in 1969. He worked in various professions...
Literary figures
Martin Beck
Gender: Male
Few Swedes can have escaped Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm police department. A principal character in Maj Sjöwall’s and Per Wahlöö’s ten police novels, he is the typical meticulous, unhappily married, ulcer-suffering inspector in contemporary crime fiction. He has won international fame through the books and a string of adaptations for film and television.