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The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1968
- Originally in
- Originally in Swedish
- Pages
- Pages 210
Rain is falling on Stockholm one November night, and a red double-decker bus has run off the road, its passengers cut down by a submachine gun. One of the bodies belongs to Åke Stenström, a young detective who was off duty and had told no one why he was riding that bus.
On the evening of the thirteenth of November it was pouring in Stockholm.
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