Allan Karve
Created by Totti Karpela (1940--)

ALLAN KARVE is a Finnish private eye in the small town of Naantali who appeared in two novels written by Totti Karpela in the mid-seventies. Not very succesful commercially or critically.

Then, almost thirty years later, Totti Karpela took the dust off his shoulders and brought Karve back in Pyöveli harvoin kättelee. The book received a warm welcome and it was thought to be better than the ones Karpela had written in the seventies. Karpela also wrote a memoir of his teenage years in the early fifties, called Kiimakorttelin keltainen kissa (The Yellow Cat of the Horny Block).

NOVELS

• Hyvätkin on haudattava. (1973; translation: Bury the Good)
• Sankarit älkäät vaivautuko. (1975; translation: Heroes Don't Have to Bother)
• Pyöveli harvoin kättelee (2003; translation: The Lynchman Doesn't Shake Hands)

RELATED LINKS

• Northern Eyes: Scandinavia and Finland
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Contributed by Juri Nummelin.