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Sample of authors
Paretsky, Sara
The American author Sara Paretsky was a leading proponent – alongside Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton and others – during a period in the 1980s and ‘90s when crime fiction by and about women came to the fore in the United States. She was born in Ames, Iowa, but moved with her family to Kansas in 1951 where they were harassed by the authorities on account of being Jewish. Her scientist father was a stri...
Literary figures
Den gamle i hörnet
Gender: Male
What his real name is, we don’t know – the name Bill Own is mentioned on one occasion, but everything points to that not being correct. Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote three collections of short stories, in which the old, rather grumpy and inaccessible man sits at a corner table in a café, ties complicated knots in a piece of string and solves the even more complicated criminal cases that jour...