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Sample of authors
Dahl, Arne
For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the literary qualities and that it was obvious that he was a person who had read widely, a lot of people guessed that it must be an established author – or possibly a collective. With his series of novels about the so-called A-group, most readers wanted, at any rate, to place him i...
Literary figures
Jack Frost
Gender: Male
Middle-aged, chain-smoking bachelor Willian ’Jack’ Frost is a detective inspector in the fictive English town of Denton. He has a slovenly appearance, is careless and uses rather coarse language – but he is an excellent criminal investigator who grumpily solves complicated cases. His creator, R.D. Wingfield, only wrote six novels about him, but these have provided the basis for radio drama and sev...