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Portrait image of Per Wahlöö 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...

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Charlie Muffin

Gender: Male

He was recruited by the British Intelligence Service already in the 1950s and since then has been a spy in a long suite of well-written, satirical novels by Brian Freemantle. But Charlie Muffin is no super-agent: he is shabby and looks so ordinary that nobody notices him. His bosses try to sacrifice him several times, and he is sometimes hunted just as eagerly by his own side as by the Russians.

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