Maj Söwall and Per Wahlöö
Photo: SvD/TT c.1971
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Wahlöö, Per
Per Fredrik Wahlöö was a Swedish author born in Kungsbacka. His father was a newspaper editor in Lund. Per Wahlöö passed his baccalaureate in 1946 and was employed at Sydsvenska Dagbladet and Kvällsposten 1947–54 and FiB 1954–62. He lived with his partner Maj Sjöwall from 1963 until his death in 1975.
Per Wahlöö is best known for a series of ten novels known as Roman om ett brott (1965–75, Novel a...
Literary figures
John Poole
Gender: Male
When Henry Wade (pseudonym for Henry Aubrey-Fletcher) introduced the pipe-smoking police detective John Poole in 1934, he was a new type of police officer in crime fiction: well brought-up, charming, with an academic education and from a good family. He is just over 180cm tall, athletically built, with a firm mouth and grey eyes. He becomes a police officer when he is only 23 years old, and a...