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Kallentoft, Mons
Mons Kallentoft is a Swedish writer and journalist born in Ljungsbro near Linköping. He began to write at the age of fourteen when he was bed-ridden after an operation. After leaving school he worked in Sweden for a while. He then moved to Madrid in order to write. While there he worked on the draft of his debut novel Pesetas (2000). By the time it was published he was back in Sweden where he ...
Literary figures
Arthur Crook
Gender: Male
An unpolished and vulgar lawyer – whose judicial methods are questionable – but also a clever crime investigator, in books by Anthony Gilbert (pseud. f. Lucy Beatrice Malleson). Arthur Crook, fat and one hundred percent cockney, is sometimes compared with a frog, appearance-wise, even though he has red hair, a red face and never wears anything but cheap brown suits. He enjoys drinking beer and doe...