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Dahl, Kjell Ola
Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo and Bærum, where he attended upper-secondary school until 1977. He went on to the University of Oslo, and spent some years travelling, studying and working as, among other things, a janitor, market dealer, taxi driver, teacher, dustman and waiter. During this period he g...
Literary figures
John Putnam Thatcher
Gender: Male
As the senior vice president for the third largest bank in the world – and in effect the man who runs the bank’s business – John Putnam Thatcher is an international power factor. He is also a clever amateur detective who solves many of the crimes he comes across in his work. He is a dignified, very polite gentleman in his sixties, according to his creator Emma Lathen (pseudonym for Mary J. Latsi...