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Portrait image of Martin Holmén Photo: Gary Doak (2019) /Eyevine / TT

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Holmén, Martin

Swedish author and teacher, was born in Eskilstuna and grew up in Krogstorp outside Sölvesborg, where he attended school. In 1993, he moved to Stockholm, and has since lived there with the exception of a couple of years as a student in Umeå. After working for a while, including in the restaurant branch, he studied at university in Stockholm and Umeå. He gained a master’s degree and subsequently wo...

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Walter Purbright

Gender: Male

Detective inspector in the little fictive town of Flaxborough in England.He is a decidedly anonymous person without a family. Walter Purbright has an everyday appearance, but he is honest and a good police officer who in a dozen commended novels by Colin Watson with stoic calm deals with the very entertaining and sometimes absurd murder cases he investigates as well as his not particularly...

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