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Sample of authors
Dahl, Arne
For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the literary qualities and that it was obvious that he was a person who had read widely, a lot of people guessed that it must be an established author – or possibly a collective. With his series of novels about the so-called A-group, most readers wanted, at any rate, to place him i...
Literary figures
Francis Hancock
Gender: Male
His father was an Englishman, his mother from India. Francis Hancock himself is a funeral director in London during the Second World War, when the Germans bombed the city. His experiences during the First World War, when he was a soldier, have given him mental problems. He is very withdrawn, which doesn’t, however, prevent him from being a clever – albeit reluctant – amateur detective in a suite o...