Indexes in fiction 5

Sister by Kjell Ola Dahl, translated from Norwegian into English by Don Bartlett, is a book I read recently that mentions indexes.

Sister is part of the Oslo detectives series and focuses on the detective Frank Frølich. He was suspended from police duty and is working as a private investigator. He is approached by his girlfriend’s colleague to help find the sister of a female asylum seeker. The asylum seeker wants to find her sister to avoid being deported by the authorities because she is afraid she will be murdered if she returns to her home country. Frølich finds the sister who denies having a sibling and things get complicated for Frølich. The police issue threats to Frølich to drop the case. Frølich encounters murders and adventures before solving the case.

The book mentions indexes when Frølich is looking up “the document index in the memory stick and studied the dating of the files more thoroughly”.

Strictly speaking, I would call "the document index" a directory or list of files, not an “index”. Perhaps the term "index" is used because the book is translated from Norwegian into English. Therefore, I include the mention here to show how broad the understanding of the terms "index" covers.

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