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The Assassination Of Olaf Palme (Swedish Prime Minister) [1986]

This is what I took it to be. Why be irritated at someone you know?

Well, if it were a known lobbyist or agitator who wanted her husband to use his power to do something. They may have been previously bothered by this person and she would have thought "Oh God, not this guy again... " but known well enough to give them space hence her moving forward.

Of course, had she known them she presumably would have raised this in the police investigation. Unless she knew to keep her mouth shut it had been threatened.

Most likely the first case though where she thought it was an irritating citizen.
 
Krister Petterson said it wasn't Christer Petterson, but Stig Engström, possibly.
 
Shame "Anonymous" is no longer with us, as I'd like to mention author Leif G.W. Persson, who has written a series of comic-mystery novels about the Swedish police. Like Nordic Noir but with gags. (Swedish humour, though: some of it is universal humour but some of it doesn't travel well)

The appalling detective Evert Bäckström is first introduced as a minor character (and black comedy relief) in the novel Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End — The Story of a Crime (Mellan sommarens längtan och vinterns köld), dramatised for TV as En Pilgrims Död. He also appears in the sequel Another Time, Another Life (En annan tid, ett annat liv). The importance of these novels is that Persson was formerly a middle-high ranking civilian employee of the Stockholm police force: he was "invited to resign" after whistle-blowing on high level incompetence among the cops, and the suspicion you get on reading his police procedurals is that these are thinky veiled reality with names, dates and locations changed to prevent libel actions.

Mellan sommarens... is an account of a fictional Sweidsh Prime Minister who is murdered one evening in Stockholm - Persson is being as explicit as he dares with the fiction and using it to present his own theory that a far-right-wing conspiracy in the police killed Palme and covered up their inside job afterwards - and is still sabotaging any investigations that get too near the truth. (Don't forget Palme was quite highly placed in the Stockholm force)

The novel has been translated into English - it is very readable - and Swedish TV ran with it and dramatised it, the TV version (Swedish only, Death of a Pilgrim) is out there on the Net. Article on Persson's writing HERE (it inspired the American TV adaptation which Americanises the characters but then goes its own way)




https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Backstrom
 
Shame "Anonymous" is no longer with us, as I'd like to mention author Leif G.W. Persson, who has written a series of comic-mystery novels about the Swedish police. Like Nordic Noir but with gags. (Swedish humour, though: some of it is universal humour but some of it doesn't travel well)

The appalling detective Evert Bäckström is first introduced as a minor character (and black comedy relief) in the novel Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End — The Story of a Crime (Mellan sommarens längtan och vinterns köld), dramatised for TV as En Pilgrims Död. He also appears in the sequel Another Time, Another Life (En annan tid, ett annat liv). The importance of these novels is that Persson was formerly a middle-high ranking civilian employee of the Stockholm police force: he was "invited to resign" after whistle-blowing on high level incompetence among the cops, and the suspicion you get on reading his police procedurals is that these are thinky veiled reality with names, dates and locations changed to prevent libel actions.

Mellan sommarens... is an account of a fictional Sweidsh Prime Minister who is murdered one evening in Stockholm - Persson is being as explicit as he dares with the fiction and using it to present his own theory that a far-right-wing conspiracy in the police killed Palme and covered up their inside job afterwards - and is still sabotaging any investigations that get too near the truth. (Don't forget Palme was quite highly placed in the Stockholm force)

The novel has been translated into English - it is very readable - and Swedish TV ran with it and dramatised it, the TV version (Swedish only, Death of a Pilgrim) is out there on the Net. Article on Persson's writing HERE (it inspired the American TV adaptation which Americanises the characters but then goes its own way)




https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Backstrom

Persson still appears on TV crime shows as he is a (retired) Professor of Criminology who specialises in problems within Policing. He gives his opinion on cold cases and how the Police will be working on ongoing cases.

He wasn't asked to resign because of whistle-blowing as regards incompetence, he was fired because he confirmed the existence of an internal memo (sent to Palme when he was PM) which confirmed a high ranking politician had been visiting a prostitute.

We shared a theory on who killed Palme which involved a unit (who no longer exist) within the Police force. I am inclined now to lean another way but both of these theories are a better fit than The Skandia Man.
 
Persson still appears on TV crime shows as he is a (retired) Professor of Criminology who specialises in problems within Policing. He gives his opinion on cold cases and how the Police will be working on ongoing cases.

He wasn't asked to resign because of whistle-blowing as regards incompetence, he was fired because he confirmed the existence of an internal memo (sent to Palme when he was PM) which confirmed a high ranking politician had been visiting a prostitute.

We shared a theory on who killed Palme which involved a unit (who no longer exist) within the Police force. I am inclined now to lean another way but both of these theories are a better fit than The Skandia Man.
wow.
 
GW Persson has his own boardgame.
 
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any further developments, thoughts or ideas?
 
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