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Lockridge, Frances

The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also grew up. After finishing school in the town, she studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and subsequently, 1918–22, worked as a reporter and music critic on the Kansas City Post. In 1922, she married Richard Lockridge, left her newspaper job and was instead very i...

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Born in the fancy district of Östermalm, Stockholm, in a military family that he despises, he is a Marxist, a snobby dresser, sarcastic and is quick to resort to violence. He is single, almost two metres tall, strong as a bull, has closely set eyes and has the habit of picking between his teeth with a paper knife. Apart from this, Gunvald Larsson is an important member in the police group around ...

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