Photo: Ulla Montan (1993) / TT
Sample of authors
Blom, K. Arne
The Swedish author K. (Karl) Arne Blom was born in Nässjö where he passed his baccalaureate in 1967. Later the same year, he moved to Lund where he attended university, and was living there ever since. Blom graduated with a BA in 1972. He worked as a councillor at Lund University, as a freelance journalist, translator and literature critic.
Blom became a member of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Aca...
Literary figures
John Stubbs
Gender: Male
British professor of Botany who is worried about becoming dehydrated, so he drinks large quantities of beer. He also solves murders in a highly personal manner in novels by R.T. Campbell (pseudonym for Ruthven Todd). Professor John Stubbs is of late middle age, vain and self-assured, corpulent, has a moustache, smokes a stinking pipe and interrogates witnesses with the sensitivity of a drunken...