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Vidocq, Eugène François

Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and master-of-disguise Eugène François Vidocq. And one can well ask whether anybody has written an autobiography with such great literary influence. He also features under his own name as well as rather obvious aliases in a number of books, and has been the subject of a lot of films, T...

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Ann Lindell

Gender: Female

Lindell is a detective inspector in Uppsala, Sweden, and the protagonist in a series of much acclaimed novels by Kjell Eriksson. In the first book she has a relationship with a farmer, Edward Risberg. Following their reluctant separation, Lindell has a somewhat chaotic private life at the same time as she is highly efficient, creative and popular at work.

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