Which author created the detective Harry Hole?
"and how he was related to the drug lord. Harry then confronts Gusto's killer. But before he can be taken in, he shoots and apparently kills Hole. As with the previous Harry Hole novels, ""Phantom"" is translated from Norwegian into English by Don Bartlett (http://donb.info/). Phantom (Nesbø novel) Phantom is a crime novel by Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø, published jn 2012. Its Norwegian title is ""Gjenferd"", which does not directly translate to ""Phantom""; rather it translates to a word similar to ""ghosts"". ""Phantom"" is the ninth novel featuring crime detective Inspector Harry Hole. Inspector Harry Hole is returned from his"
"I can dig out the rest of the series and read them again, in order. Verdict: 5/5"" The Bat (novel) The Bat (, ""Bat Man"") is a 1997 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the first in the Harry Hole series. The story revolves around the Norwegian police officer Harry Hole, who is sent to Sydney, Australia to serve as an attaché for the Australian police's investigation into the murder of a young female Norwegian celebrity, Inger Holter. Her boyfriend, Evans White, is initially approached as a suspect. Hole is assisted by Aboriginal colleague Andrew Kensington; together they find"
"The Bat (novel) The Bat (, ""Bat Man"") is a 1997 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the first in the Harry Hole series. The story revolves around the Norwegian police officer Harry Hole, who is sent to Sydney, Australia to serve as an attaché for the Australian police's investigation into the murder of a young female Norwegian celebrity, Inger Holter. Her boyfriend, Evans White, is initially approached as a suspect. Hole is assisted by Aboriginal colleague Andrew Kensington; together they find out that they are dealing with a serial killer who strangles blonde women. Hole befriends a red"
"Police (Nesbø novel) Police (, 2013) is a crime novel by Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø. It is the tenth novel in Nesbø's Harry Hole series. The tenth in the Oslo crime series featuring detective Harry Hole is the most sizeable entry yet; a twisting-turning saga that pits the gangly maverick against that most feared of serial killers, the cop killer. This murderer has a very devious ""modus operandi"", luring police, and ex-police, involved in unsolved murders to the scene of the original crime to perform a copycat killing there, seemingly as a punishment for having failed to solve the original"
"of Nesbø's that stems from a childhood memory of accepting a dare to eat a whole apple while it was still attached to the tree. As with the previous Harry Hole novels, ""The Leopard"" is translated from Norwegian into English by Don Bartlett. The Leopard (Nesbø novel) The Leopard is a crime novel by Norwegian novelist, Jo Nesbø. Its Norwegian title is ""Panserhjerte"", which does not directly translate to The Leopard; it rather means something along the lines of ""armoured heart"". Moreover, ""leopard"" refers to the stealthy tread of the killer in the book, while ""armoured heart"" is what Harry"
"J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling , ( ""rolling""; born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for writing the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. They have also been the basis for a film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the series. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was"
"origins in the Viking Age. The name is derived from Old Norse ""Hólar"", the plural form of ""hóll"", meaning ""round and isolated hill"". The word is pronounced as two syllables, with stress on the first (hoo-leh), as is implied in ""The Bat"", where the Australian police call him ""Harry Holy"". The seventh novel in the series ""The Snowman"" was adapted as a film in 2017 starring Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole, with Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Ronan Vibert, and J.K. Simmons. Harry Hole Harry Hole is the main character in a series of crime novels written by Norwegian author Jo"
"Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a ""consulting detective"" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's ""A Study in Scarlet"", the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in ""The Strand Magazine"", beginning with ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" in 1891; additional tales appeared"
"Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a ""consulting detective"" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's ""A Study in Scarlet"", the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in ""The Strand Magazine"", beginning with ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" in 1891; additional tales appeared"
"the Detective. In short, it is difficult to establish who was the first to write the English-language detective novel, as various authors were exploring the theme simultaneously. In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, arguably the most famous of all fictional detectives. Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective (he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq), his name has become a byword for the part. Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell"
"case. Police (Nesbø novel) Police (, 2013) is a crime novel by Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø. It is the tenth novel in Nesbø's Harry Hole series. The tenth in the Oslo crime series featuring detective Harry Hole is the most sizeable entry yet; a twisting-turning saga that pits the gangly maverick against that most feared of serial killers, the cop killer. This murderer has a very devious ""modus operandi"", luring police, and ex-police, involved in unsolved murders to the scene of the original crime to perform a copycat killing there, seemingly as a punishment for having failed to solve the"
"services to literature and philanthropy. J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling , ( ""rolling""; born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for writing the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. They have also been the basis for a film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the series. Born in"
"Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published ""A Study in Scarlet"", the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic"
"J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works ""The Hobbit"", ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both"
"April Henry April Henry (born April 14, 1959) is an American ""New York Times"" bestselling author of mysteries, thrillers, and young adult novels. Born in Portland, Oregon, April 14, 1959, Henry grew up in the small southern Oregon city of Medford where her father, Hank Henry, was a KTVL television newscaster, and her mother, Nora Henry, was a florist. Author Roald Dahl helped Harry Potter take his first step as mfm. When Henry was twelve, she sent Dahl a short story about a frog who loved peanut butter. Dahl had lunch with the editor of an international children's magazine and"
"to arrest him. As with previous Harry Hole novels by Jo Nesbø, the book - called Frelseren in Norwegian - was translated into English by Don Bartlett. The Redeemer (novel) The Redeemer () is a novel by popular Norwegian crime-writer Jo Nesbø, part of his Harry Hole series. ""The Redeemer"" begins by describing an incident which took place a number of years in the past, in 1991, at a youth camp run by the Norwegian Salvation Army. A young, 14-year-old girl – the daughter of a senior official in the Salvation Army – is raped in a public toilet on"
"sets to a script that didn’t exist.” Jonathan Hales Jonathan Hales (born 10 May 1937) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is noted for his work with Lucasfilm, including ""The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"" television series and """". Hales has worked extensively in film and television. He began his screenwriting career in 1970, with the British television series ""Manhunt"". Hales has written for the American series ""Dallas"", as well as many iterations — series and DVD releases — of ""The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones"". Hales wrote the 1980 Agatha Christie film ""The Mirror Crack'd"". He is credited with"
"Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot (, ; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 42 novels, one play (""Black Coffee""), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh and John Malkovich. Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau"
"Harry Harrison (writer) Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel ""Make Room! Make Room!"" (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture ""Soylent Green"" (1973). Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss called him ""a constant peer and great family friend"". His friend Michael Carroll said, ""Imagine ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" or ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", and picture them as science-fiction novels. They're rip-roaring"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the seventh and final novel of the ""Harry Potter"" series. The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"". It was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing, in the United States by Scholastic, and in Canada by Raincoast Books. The novel chronicles the events directly following ""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"" (2005) and the final confrontation between"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the seventh and final novel of the ""Harry Potter"" series. The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"". It was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing, in the United States by Scholastic, and in Canada by Raincoast Books. The novel chronicles the events directly following ""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"" (2005) and the final confrontation between"
"Harry Horse Richard Horne, whose pen name was Harry Horse (9 May 1960, Coventry – 10 January 2007, Papil, West Burra), was an English author, illustrator and political cartoonist. He was also known as lead singer of the band Swamptrash. Born and raised in Coventry, Warwickshire, he moved to Edinburgh in 1978, where he adopted his pen name. His first book, ""Ogopogo, My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster"", was published in 1983. He also wrote ""The Last..."" series of books; this included ""The Last Polar Bears"", which was adapted into a 30-minute cartoon for CITV and a touring theatre"
"Harry Potter Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's struggle against Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic, and subjugate all wizards and Muggles (non-magical people). Since the release of the first novel, ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"", on 26"
"Michael Connelly Michael Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus ""Harry"" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. Connelly is the bestselling author of thirty-one novels and one work of non-fiction. With over 60 million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. His very first novel, ""The Black Echo"", won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and"
"Slingsby visited Romsdalen in 1875 and later. Arne Randers Heen was a local climber with several first ascents. The fictional detective Harry Hole is mentioned as being originally from Åndalsnes in the Romsdalen valley, while the series' writer Jo Nesbø is actually from Molde in the same region. ""The Bat"", first book in the Harry Hole series, includes a passage of reminiscences, which might be based on the writer's own experiences: In 1612 a group of some 300 Scottish mercenaries landed near Åndalsnes and marched through the valley towards Sweden. The group was later massacred at Battle of Kringen. After"
"The Hollow The Hollow is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead & co. in 1946 and in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). A paperback edition in the US by Dell Books in 1954 changed the title to Murder after Hours. The novel is an example of a ""country house mystery"" and was the first of her novels in four years to feature Christie's Belgian"
"Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, civil rights activist Booker T. Washington, and Mark Twain. Conan Doyle wrote ""The Crime of the Congo"" in 1908, while Twain gave the most famous contribution with the satirical short story ""King Leopold's Soliloquy"". Conrad and Ford Madox Ford also included a devastating parody of Leopold II in their cowritten novel ""The Inheritors"". Morel's best allies, however, may have been the Christian missionaries who furnished him with eyewitness accounts and photographs of the atrocities, such as those given by the Americans William Morrison and William Henry Sheppard, and the British John Hobbis Harris and"
"Parnell Hall (writer) Parnell Hall (born October 31, 1944) is a mystery writer. His works include the ""Puzzle Lady"" and the Stanley Hastings series, as well as the screenplay to the 1984 cult classic ""C.H.U.D."" He has collaborated with Manny Nosowsky for crossword puzzles and with Will Shortz for sudoku puzzles incorporated in Puzzle Lady stories. He also has written under the pen name J.P. Hailey, under which he wrote the Steve Winslow series. He co-authored ""Smooth Operator"" with Stuart Woods. -Both novels also feature Woods' popular character Stone Barrington- -Also features Stone Barrington- Filmography Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D)"
"Mr. Mycroft. American novelist and filmmaker Nicholas Meyer wrote three Holmes novels: ""The Seven-Per-Cent Solution"" (1974), ""The West End Horror"" (1976), and ""The Canary Trainer"" (1993). In 1977 the novel ""Exit Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective's Final Days"" by Robert Lee Hall was published, and featured an exploration of Holmes' origins with a science fiction twist. In this account Holmes and Moriarty are revealed to be from the future. Randall Collins published in 1978 ""The Case of the Philosophers' Ring"", under the pseudonym Dr. John H. Watson, with Holmes' services requested at Cambridge, around 1914, by Bertrand Russell, and meeting"
"thereafter referred it to Solar Pons. Carnacki Thomas Carnacki is a fictional occult detective created by English fantasy writer William Hope Hodgson. Carnacki was the protagonist of a series of six short stories published between 1910 and 1912 in ""The Idler"" magazine and ""The New Magazine"". These stories were printed together as ""Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder"" in 1913. A 1948 Arkham House edition of ""Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder"" edited by August Derleth added three stories: ""The Haunted ""Jarvee"""", published posthumously in ""The Premier Magazine"" in 1929; ""The Hog"", published in ""Weird Tales"" in 1947; and ""The Find"", a previously unpublished story. The"
"Cockroaches (novel) Cockroaches (, 1998) is a crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the second in the Harry Hole series. Norway's ambassador to Thailand is found stabbed to death in a brothel on the outskirts of Bangkok. Oslo detective Harry Hole is sent to help the Thai police solve the crime before the scandal hits the newspapers. Starting at the embassy in Bangkok, Hole uncovers tensions between career diplomats and political appointees, as well as shameful secrets of the ambassador's family and various embassy staff. Hole learns that the ambassador had lost heavily in betting on Thai horse racing"
"in print and doing very well."" On April 18, 2003, the Walt Disney film adaptation of ""Holes"" was released, which earned $71.4 million worldwide. Sachar himself wrote the film's screenplay. In November 19, 2005, the ""Wayside School"" series was adapted into a special, two years later becoming a TV show with two seasons. Louis Sachar Louis Sachar ( ; born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the ""Wayside School"" series and the award-winner, ""Holes"". ""Holes"" won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for"
"2012 on the 150th anniversary of the novel's release. An ebook version is also available. The Notting Hill Mystery The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–63) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym ""Charles Felix"", with illustrations by George du Maurier. The author's identity was never formally revealed in his lifetime, but several critics have since suggested Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), a lawyer known to have written other novels under pseudonyms. It is arguably regarded as the very first detective novel in the English language. ""The Notting Hill Mystery"" was first published as an eight-part serial in ""Once A Week"""