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Two writers from the left — a crime-writing team with a markedly Marxist perspective — might (without too much argument) be said to have started it all in terms of important Scandinavian crime fiction: the spectacularly talented Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Their continuing influence (since the death of Per Wahlöö) remains prodigious.
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© 2012 Barry Forshaw
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Forshaw, B. (2012). Crime and the Left. In: Death in a Cold Climate. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230363502_2
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