Tam Sventon

Tam Sventon (Swedish: Ture Sventon) is a private detective and main character in nine Swedish children's books written by Åke Holmberg 1948–1973. He is characterized by eating semlas and riding on a flying carpet. The books are well-known in Sweden, but internationally the similar book series about Agaton Sax was more successful.^[1]

The books

• Ture Sventon, privatdetektiv (1948), English: Tam Sventon, private detective
• Ture Sventon i öknen (1949), English: Tam Sventon, desert detective
• Ture Sventon i London (1950)
• Ture Sventon i Paris (1953)
• Ture Sventon i Stockholm (1954), English: Tam Sventon and the silver plate gang
• Ture Sventon och Isabella (1955)
• Ture Sventon i spökhuset (1965)
• Ture Sventon i varuhuset (1968), English: Tam Sventon and discovery P3X
• Ture Sventon i Venedig (1973)

Notes

1. ^ They were translated into more languages and all the books are available in English.