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Stein, Jesper
As a journalist, Stein was known by his full name, Jesper Stein Larsen. For his literary career, he used the shortened version Jesper Stein – a name which became firmly associated with successful detective fiction during the 2010s. His father was the nationally well-known writer and critic Finn Stein Larsen (1929–2013). Jesper Stein was born in Aarhus, Denmark, where he also grew up and went to sc...
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Uhnak, Dorothy
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the Bronx, New York, where she lived all her life. Her father was a projectionist who occasionally cooperated with the police when they needed to consult a movie expert. His daughter became fascinated with police procedure and soon became a fixture at the local precinct where she...