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Sample of authors
Crispin, Edmund
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of detective stories born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, London, and St. John’s College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages in 1943. While in Oxford he befriended Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, and he tra...
Literary figures
Knud Ejnarsen
Gender: Male
A boorish, prejudiced, aggressive and heavy-handed police detective in the Danish ‘Rejsehold’, a sort of Danish FBI. He would have been insufferable if he hadn’t functioned as an excellent complement to his colleague Jonas Mørck, who is his complete opposite. The dialogues between the two in Poul Ørum’s books are deeply human, and the well-built, somewhat overweight Knud Ejnarsen, who sweats quite...