Stieg Trenter (right) with
the photographer K.W. Gullers
Photo: Carl Erik Sundström / TT (1958)
Sample of authors
Trenter, Stieg
Stieg Ivar Trenter, born Stig Ivar Johansson, grew up in Farsta, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. His father owned a general store. Although he did well, Trenter was never happy at school, and after graduating in 1931 he tried various professions such as office boy and working in an abattoir. He wanted to become an aviator, and he joined the air force, but he soon lost interest and he left after...
Literary figures
Roderick Alleyn
Gender: Male
His titled parents wanted him to become a diplomat; instead Roderick Alleyn chose to become a police officer and work for Scotland Yard. In more than 30 novels by Ngaio Marsh, he solves cases in a highly cultivated manner, often side-by-side with his wife, portrait-painter Agatha Troy. He is tall, dark and ‘stylish’ and is just as much at home in society as with the inhabitants of small country to...