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Portrait image of August Derleth Photo: The Granger Collection / TT (c. 1950)

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Derleth, August

American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. When he died, he had written more than 150 books in a row of literary genres, and he left behind him a large number of unpublished manuscripts. His publisher’s, Arkham House, are rather legendary when it comes to primarily fantasy and horror literature, and he was a respected lec...

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Christian Rønnes

Gender: Male

Little is known about his private life, but in the criminal investigation department in Trondheim everyone knows who he is: an honest, pleasant veteran who eventually retires in books by Fredrik Skagen, but who is still sought out for advice by his younger former colleagues. Christian Rønnes is a stable elderly gentleman, he thinks and acts sometimes rather slowly, but he sticks stubbornly at it ...

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