Folke Mellvig

Who was Folke Mellvig?

Karl Folke Sigvard Mellvig was a Swedish writer and screenwriter.

Mellvig was one of Sweden's most popular crime writers in the 1950s and 1960s, with murder mysteries set in "peaceful" Swedish summer time; at countryside locations and often in aristocratic or upper-class environments. His crime-solving middle-class city couple Kajsa and John Hillman are famous, later on popular characters in the early Swedish thriller/crime films - the so called "Hillman-thrillers", directed by Arne Mattsson. The most successful of these films were The Lady in Black and Mannequin in Red. The first book on the Hillman-couple was published in 1951 and then several books followed on the couple but only a few selected were adapted to film.

Folke Mellvig was brother to the Swedish actor Börje Mellvig.