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Carlsson, Christoffer
Christoffer Carlsson grew up a rather lonely child in the small community of Skedala "in the gap between Halmstad and Simlångsdalen along national trunk road 25". His mother is a police clerk and his father a former car mechanic. Books were not common in the house when he was a boy. He discovered them on his own by means of the local mobile library. "No one else knows just how cool this is," he ...
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Gaboriau, Émile
While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime fiction, Émile Gaboriau has been cited as the father of the crime novel. He was the first to use at least four defining elements of the genre: 1) He wrote briefly and succinctly compared to his contemporaries and his novels are driven by the crime plot. 2) His protagonists are ...