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Portrait image of Jan Guillou Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)

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Guillou, Jan

Swedish author and journalist, who was born in Södertälje and grew up in Saltsjöbaden. Jan Guillou, who has French ancestry (his paternal grandfather was the French ambassador in Helsinki), dropped out of his university studies in Law, and instead concentrated his efforts on a career as a journalist, at an early stage becoming known for his committed and politically radical reporting – Guillou has...

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Henry Arnold

Gender: Male

Patient, pipe-smoking Scotland Yard detective inspector who solves a whole row of cases in detective stories by Miles Burton (pseudonym for Cecil Street). He has an everyday appearance, and little is known about his private life. Henry Arnold often investigates the same cases as private detective Desmond Merrion, and usually they work together. They are generally of completely different...

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