History Literature / TamSventon

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Frans Briljant and "Tomten" Larsson, two minor antagonists in the third book.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Has [[ComicallyMissingThePoint/TamSventon|its own page]].

* AlliterativeName:
** '''V'''ille '''V'''essla.

** '''S'''larvige '''S'''vante (roughly "Sloppy Svante"), a supporting antagonist in the fifth book.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Way to many examples to list here ComicallyMissingThePoint/Tam Sventon.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Frans Briljant and "Tomten" Larsson, two minor antagonists in the third book.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Way to many examples to list here.

!!The 1989 Christmas calendar provide examples of:

* Archenemy: Willie the Weasel to Sventon

* Archenemy: Willie the Weasel to Sventon
* BigDamnHeroes: Played with in the third book. Omar arrives in time to surprise the weasel and his henchmen when Sventon has been caught, only to get caught himself by another henchman... who in turn gets caught by Lord Hubbard.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Way to many examples to list here.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Willie the Weasel tries to act as nice as he can when writing blackmails or when he disguises himself, but his mean-spirited ways shine trough easily.

* Macguffin: The stolen refrigerator, Nordpolen, of the second book.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: "The Ox", Willie the Weasels partner-in-crime and DumbMuscle in the first book.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Hubbard in the third book.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Played with throughout the books. While the Weasel ''does'' get arrested in every book where he appears except one, Sventon claims that he is only in jail for three minutes before managing to escape.

* CompositeCharacter: The four books which the series was based on, Number 1-3 and 5, all featured different children as sidekicks, and the first book featured four. This adaption reduced it to four children, with two of them appearing in the first two stories, while second couple appeared in the last two stories. As a result, the grandchildren of the Fredriksson sisters inherited the roles of both the other two children in the first story and the children of the refrigerator engineer, while the children of the jeweler Henrik Eriksson inherited the roles as the nephew and niece of Lord Hubbard. Probably EnforcedTrope Enforced since four child actors would a lot be easier than ten.
* SlidingScaleOfAdaptionModification: Type IV. The swap of children above is practically the only way to tell the series from the books.

* Archenemy: Willie the Weasel to Sventon
* BigDamnHeroes: Played with in the third book. Omar arrives in time to surprise the weasel and his henchmen when Sventon has been caught, only to get caught himself by another henchman... who in turn gets caught by Lord Hubbard.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Way to many examples to list here.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Willie the Weasel tries to act as nice as he can when writing blackmails or when he disguises himself, but his mean-spirited ways shine trough easily.

* Macguffin: The stolen refrigerator, Nordpolen, of the second book.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: "The Ox", Willie the Weasels partner-in-crime and DumbMuscle in the first book.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Hubbard in the third book.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Played with throughout the books. While the Weasel ''does'' get arrested in every book where he appears except one, Sventon claims that he is only in jail for three minutes before managing to escape.

* CompositeCharacter: The four books which the series was based on, Number 1-3 and 5, all featured different children as sidekicks, and the first book featured four. This adaption reduced it to four children, with two of them appearing in the first two stories, while second couple appeared in the last two stories. As a result, the grandchildren of the Fredriksson sisters inherited the roles of both the other two children in the first story and the children of the refrigerator engineer, while the children of the jeweler Henrik Eriksson inherited the roles as the nephew and niece of Lord Hubbard. Probably EnforcedTrope Enforced since four child actors would a lot be easier than ten.
* NearIdenticalAdaption: The swap of children above is practically the only way to tell the series from the books.

The main character is the private investigator Tam Sventon (Ture Sventon in the original), who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and is frequently involved in various adventures both around his hometown and in other, more exotic locations across the world. He was born Sam/Sture Svensson but legally changed it when he got older, as he has a speech impediment causing him to be unable to pronounce the letter S. Many of his adventures involves getting help from his Trusty Sidekick Mr Omar, an extremely mild-mannered Arab man who befriends Sventon when he sells him a (working) flying carpet in the first book, as well as his secretary Miss Jansson and often one or several local children. They also often involves his nemesis, Ville Vessla ("Will the Weasel"), a master criminal who "can escape from prison within three minutes of getting there". Strangely, he is able to pronounce the Weasel's name perfectly despite his speech impediment.

* ComicallySerious: Everyone. ''constantly''. As Holmberg himself put it, "most detective stories speak humorously of serious things. I do the opposite; I speak seriously of pure poppycock".
* FauxAffablyEvil: Willie the Weasel tries to act as nice as he can when writing blackmails or when he disguises himself, but his mean-spirited ways shine trough easily.

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Hubbard in the third book.

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: Many of Sventons characteristics, such as his flying carpet, his lisping and his addiction to ''semlor/temlor'' disappears after the third book. Omar and The Weasel appear less constantly as well. The tone and humor remains unchanged, though.

His adventures have become both comic books, TV series and movies, and remains a popular if somewhat dated character for Swedish children to read about.

* Ture Sventon i Venedig (1973)

He also has a number of catchphrases, most notably "Only use the guns in an emergenty!", "It's always the Weasel!" and "It is too early to talk about that yet!".

The main character is the private investigator Tam Sventon (Ture Sventon in the original), who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and is frequently involved in various adventures both around his hometown and in other, more exotic locations across the world. He was born Sam/Sture Svensson but legally changed it when he got older, as he has a speech impediment causing him to be unable to pronounce the letter S. Many of his adventures involves getting help from his Trusty Sidekick Mr Omar, an extremely mild-mannered Arab man who befriends Sventon when he sells him a (working) flying carpet in the first book, as well as his secretary Miss Jansson and often one or several local children.

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)