Places

• City Limit Solna/Stockholm

  If he crossed the city limits and followed Norra Stationsgatan for some five hundred yards in a north-easterly direction they would only need to be ii Stockholm for two minutes. 

• Communal garden plots, The Railway Museum, The National Bacteriological Laboratory

  Both Communal garden plots and The Railway Museum have vanished since the sixties when the book was written. But The National Bacteriological Laboratory is still here.

• Eugeniavägen

  Then he could turn in te Eugeniävagen, drive across the hospital area and continue through Haga Park and along by the Northern Cemetery, finishing up finally at police headquarters.

• Haga Park

  One of the major parks in Stockholm. A generally very quiet area. Today the Crown Princess, Victoria, lives here with her husband.

• Kapellgatan

  Just before ten thirty they got a call on the radio and drove to an address at Kapellgatan in the suburb of Huvudsta, where someone had found a lifeless figure lying on the front steps.

• Malmö

  While they were still serving as ordinary beat officers on the beat in Malmö, he had many a time seen Kristiansson lead drunks along the street and even across bridges in order to get them into the next precinct.

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  Police headquarters, Solna

  ... finishing up finally at police headquarters. By that time their shift would be over and the chance of seeing anyone on the way should be infinitesimal.

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  The hospital area (Karolinska hospital)

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  The Northern Cemetery

  One of the major cemeteries in Stockholm. Yet another quiet place for our lazy police officers to patrol.

• The Police Training College (Huvudsta)

  He drove slowly, in glum silence, following a twisting route from Huvudsta that led past the Police Training College ...

• The university district

  Primarily academic studies in medicine.

• Tomtebodaskolan (The School for the Blind)

  Today, headquarters of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC.

• Tomtebodavägen

  When they reached the end of Tomtebodavägen, Kvant stopped the car with the radiator one yard from the Stockholm city Umit and let the engine idle while he considered how to arrange the rest of their shift.