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Lyall, Gavin
Gavin Tudor Lyall was a British author of espionage thrillers. He was born in Birmingham, England, where he attended the King Edward VI School between 1943 and 1951. After serving in the Royal Air Force 1951–53, he read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1956. While at Cambridge he edited the student newspaper Varsity in which he also published a c...
Literary figures
Kai Bugge
Gender: Male
A middle-aged Norwegian psychoanalyst, whom author Bernhard Borge (pseudonym for André Bjerke) partly based on his friend, psychoanalyst Trygve Braatøy. Kai Bugge is calm and logical and is said to be known for his book Das Verbrechen als Erlösung. He is considered to be the first ‘psychological’ problem-solver in Nordic crime fiction, and the three books about him are regarded as classics.