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Portrait image of Ellery Queen Ellery Queen (Lee and Dannay)
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Queen, Ellery

Ellery Queen is a pen name shared by Frederic Dannay, born Daniel Nathan, and Manfred B. (Bennington) Lee, born Manford Lepofsky, both from New York. They were cousins who attended Boy's High School, Brooklyn, together and later worked independently within PR and advertising before they started writing full time in 1931.
Ellery Queen is something of institution in the detective genre; the books...

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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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