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Lehtolainen, Leena

Leena Katriina Lehtolainen is a Finnish author. She was born in Vesanto and grew up in Outokumpu, Northern Karelia. Lehtolainen’s parents were both university lecturers. She obtained a licentiate degree from the University of Helsinki with a thesis on the subject of the Finnish crime novelist Eeva Tenhunen. She was an assistant and lecturer at the department of Finnish literature at the U...

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John Poole

Gender: Male

When Henry Wade (pseudonym for Henry Aubrey-Fletcher) introduced the pipe-smoking police detective John Poole in 1934, he was a new type of police officer in crime fiction: well brought-up, charming, with an academic education and from a good family. He is just over 180cm tall, athletically built, with a firm mouth and grey eyes. He becomes a police officer when he is only 23 years old, and a...

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