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Portrait image of Johan Theorin Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)

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Theorin, Johan

Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his family in 1964. He finds his inspiration on the island of Öland where he used to spend his summer holidays as a child. Theorin completed upper-secondary school in Lindesberg in 1983. After a year of military service followed he was an exchange student at Middlebury College, ...

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Solar Pons

Gender: Male

He is tall and thin and very sharp-witted, the master detective who lives at 7B Praed Street in London, and who solves cases together with Dr Lyndon Parker. This sounds very similar to Sherlock Holmes, and it is: August Derleth wrote a large number of Sherlock-Holmes pastiches, primarily in the form of short stories, about Solar Pons, who does, however, have a somewhat lighter personality of his...

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