one fact baffled Stieg. No one had managed to come up with a satisfactory explanation for why the murderer had taken his revolver with him when he fled. In every beloved spy novel, professional murderers ditched their weapons as soon as possible, because their risk of getting caught increased exponentially if they were carrying the actual murder weapons around with them. In the case of Olof Palme, the murderer brought a Magnum revolver “as big as a suckling pig” away from the scene with him. He couldn’t have counted on the Swedish police making the monumental mistake of failing to seal off the
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