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Why have the Swedes been incapable of finding Olof Palme’s murderer?

The prime minister’s assassination in 1986 shocked the world. Despairing of the Swedish police, Stieg Larsson attempted to solve the crime himself

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  • The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

    Jan Stocklassa, translated from the Swedish by Tara F. Chace

    Amazon Crossing, pp. 503, £19

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