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    The Forest Lake Mystery: The Original Danish Crime Thriller
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    The Forest Lake Mystery: The Original Danish Crime Thriller
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    The Forest Lake Mystery: The Original Danish Crime Thriller

    By Palle Rosenkrantz

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    The original Danish crime novel available for the first time in English.

    Detective Sergeant Eigil Holst is on holiday in the countryside when the body of a baby is washed up on the banks of a nearby lake. The local magistrate orders the lake to be drained and the body of a young woman is discovered, naked and weighed down with stones tied to her feet and neck. Her identity is a mystery.

    Holst then takes it upon himself to find out where this woman came from, why she was in this remote location and who could have had motive to kill her. His investigations take him across Scandinavia and into central Europe as, gradually, he realises that the solution to the mystery could have huge implications on his own future.

    The Forest Lake Mystery, originally published in 1903, is considered to be the very first Danish crime novel and the annual Danish crime writing awards are named in honour of its author, Palle Rosenkrantz.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbandoned Bookshop
    Release dateFeb 26, 2018
    ISBN9781788630627
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    The Forest Lake Mystery: The Original Danish Crime Thriller
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    Palle Rosenkrantz

    Author, translator and lawyer Palle Rosenkrantz became the godfather of Danish crime with his 1903 novel, Hvad Skovsøen gemte (The Forest Lake Mystery). Rosenkrantz also worked for the newspaper Politiken and wrote manuscripts for silent films. The Palle Rosenkrantz Prize is named after him and is awarded each year to the best crime novel published in Danish.

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