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Sample of authors
Waltari, Mika
The Finnish author Mika Waltari is considered one of the foremost Nordic authors of the 20th century. Many of his books are classics, probably best-known is the historical novel Sinuhe the Egyptian (1945, Sinuhe, egyptiläinen). He was also a poet and playwright, and he wrote crime stories, non-fiction, short stories, travel writing, and for a period comic strips. His books have been translated ...
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...