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Her life contained more tragedies than anyone of ever met. Her personality, her fate, and her manor house reminded me of an English mystery novel, and it was hard to know where the boundary ran between truth and fiction. (227)

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During the days after the assassigniaton, tips had poured in about Enerström’s involvement. One informant reported that a few months before the assassination, Enerstöm has said ‘I am going th remove Palme from office faster than you think,’...

Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (204)

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But an equally plausible reason for him to take the weapon with him was that he viewed it as a trophy. The gun that changed Swedish history would have some value to a person who murdered Sweden’s prime minister for his politics.

Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (172)

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That meant that the person who had been convicted of murdering a politician had, in fact been convicted by people who were politically appointed. It was as if only carpenters would for the jury in the case of a murdered carpenter.

Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (167)

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It’s hard to liberate eypurselffrom the idea that while the police are running around chasing Kurds and other terrorists, the real murder is standing around quitely on a street corner, watching.

- Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (160)

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...the custom crimes investigation police, a different arm of the police entirely, raided Östling’s home. They found...218 boxes of ammunition, twenty pistols, four revolvers, one pump-action shotgun, one Mauser, one gas grenade, five machine gun belts, three smoke grenades, five grenades, three smoke bombs, eight tear gas sprayers..

Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (145-146)

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But why would South Africa have been involved in the assassination of a politician halfway around the world?... Plane’s repeated attempts to stop their arms trading wEre further motivation for the South Africans to want him dead.

- Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (130)

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There were up to ten people who claimed that they knew about the assignation in advance and notified the press or the police.

- Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (115)

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On paper, department head Ulf Karlsson at the Swedish National Police Board (Rikspolisstyrelsen) was going to head the Palme investigation, but in reality, there were suddenly at least three separate investigations instead.

- Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (105)

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“We’re going to map out anti-Palme hatred and opposition campaigns from before his death”

-Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (90)

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“Very soon after he moved in with them, Stieg started calling his grandmother Tekla ‘Mom’ and his grandfather Serverin ‘Dad,’ quite simply because he had been with them for as long as he could remember.”

- Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (78)

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“I realized as i sat wit this vast material how much time Stieg must have put into gathering, reading, and organizing it all. My own research material was mostly digital, but i guessed that it only contained a tenth as much information as Stieg’s case, even though i had already been working on this for four years.”

-Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (58)

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“...the only picture that was published to begin with was the one that would for all eternity be known throughout Sweden as the phantom imagine. Rather fitting as the suspect seemed to have vanished into thin air like a ghost.”

-Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (47)

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“...the magazine Contra, with a markedly right-leaning profile, was also selling dartboards with a disparaging caricature of Olof Palme’s face as the target.”

-Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (34)

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“It happpened when the desperate feeling of déjà vu hit me, making me realized that this was the second time in less than three years i had lost a prime minister,..”

Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played With Fire (3)

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“We’re living in the age of the noose, he thought. Fear will be on the rise.”

-Henning Mankell, Faceless killers (280)

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‘....Refugees who know they don’t have a strong case to be permitted to stay in Sweden quickly learn that one excellent way to improve their chances is to say that they’re gypsies.’

-Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers (269)