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When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in history that a head of state had been murdered without a clue who had done it, and on a Stockholm street at point-blank range. Internationally known for his fictional far-right villains, Larsson was...
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Film Ideas
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[2010]
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English
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On the 28 February 1986, Olof Palme, Sweden's social democratic Prime Minister, was shot dead as he was walking home from the cinema which he had attended with his wife. 20 years on and still there are no answers, only theories. Although there seem to have been several witnesses who saw men with walkie-talkies in the vicinity on the night in question, the Swedish police force seems to have closed ranks. According to the chief investigator on the case,...
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Film Ideas
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[2010]
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English
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Summary: "In the Netherlands, a country so keen on consensus, Pim Fortuyn, a political outsider, criticises both the traditional right-of-centre, and the established left-of-centre parties. His main target was immigration, the problems of social security, unemployment and public safety. In cities like Rotterdam, there is an immigrant majority. In the past it had been "Come to tolerant Holland, you're welcome." First came the old colonies, then the...
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Pantheon Books
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2014.
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English
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"From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction--and one of the best crime writers of our time--here is the final volume in the critically acclaimed Story of a Crime trilogy, centered on the assassination of Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden, is determined once again to reopen the dusty files on the unsolved murder of Prime Minister Palme. With his...
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