Steen Blicher: 2 books

The classic Danish thriller dubbed 'The First Crime Novel.'  The trial of Pastor Søren Jensen Quist of Vejlby took place at Aarhus in 1626. The trial centered around the unexplained disappearance in 1607 of a farm laborer named Jesper Hovgaard who was employed at Pastor Quist's rectory. Fifteen...

In an autobiographical sketch, written in his fifty-seventh year, Steen Blicher ends his record of a life spent in tireless activity and almost constant misfortune, with the following words: "Finally, he has made numerous contributions to the public journals--at first sometimes anonymously--through...