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Portrait image of Karin Alvtegen Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

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Alvtegen, Karin

Karin Alvtegen was born in Huskvarna in the Swedish province of Småland. Her parents were teachers. She specialised in music at upper-secondary school and later worked as props manager at Jönköping County Theatre. She claims she never dreamt of writing books, although her maternal grandfather, brother of Astrid Lindgren, was an author. Karin Alvtegen moved to Stockholm in 1985 where she co...

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Abner

Gender: Male

His last name is never mentioned, but in the backwoods of 19th-century Virginia he is known and respected as Uncle Abner. In a series of classic detective stories by Melville Davisson Post, collected in two volumes, he solves strange crimes using common sense, life experience and his faith in God. He is an older man, big and burly, with a deep voice and a gray beard, and always has the Bible in...

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