The Forest Lake Mystery
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 show more 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 the very first Danish crime novel and the annual Danish crime writing awards are named in honour of its author, Palle Rosenkrantz. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Forest Lake Mystery
- Original title
- Hvad skovsøen gemte
- Original publication date
- 1903
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- Danish, English
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- Paper, Ebook
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