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Stein, Jesper

As a journalist, Stein was known by his full name, Jesper Stein Larsen. For his literary career, he used the shortened version Jesper Stein – a name which became firmly associated with successful detective fiction during the 2010s. His father was the nationally well-known writer and critic Finn Stein Larsen (1929–2013). Jesper Stein was born in Aarhus, Denmark, where he also grew up and went to sc...

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Meyer Meyer

Gender: Male

Max Meyer, of Polish-Jewish extraction, had a curious sense of humour: he named his son Meyer Meyer. The name contributed to the boy becoming the victim of bullies in school. As an adult, he turned completely bald, became a police detective, patient, and is married to the motherly Sarah with whom he has three children. He works in the 87th police district in Isola in police novels by Ed McBain...

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