Murder on the thirty-first floor
By: Per Wahlöö ; translated by Sarah Death
Contributors: Death, Sarah, translator
Publisher: Chivers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Translated from: swe
Translation of: Mord på 31:a våningen
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781471314704; 9781471314711
Subjects: Newspaper publishing; Fiction; Murders; Bomb threats
Work titles: Mord på 31
Description: In an unnamed country, in an unnamed year sometime in the future, Chief Inspector Jensen of the Sixteenth Division is called in after the publishers controlling the entire country's newspapers and magazines receive a threat to blow up their building, in retaliation for a murder they are accused of committing. The building is evacuated, but the bomb fails to explode and Jensen is given seven days in which to track down the letter writer. Jensen has never had a case he could not solve before, but as his investigation into the identity of the letter writer begins it soon becomes clear that the directors of the publishers have their own secrets, not least the identity of the 'Special Department' on the thirty first floor; the only department not permitted to be evacuated after the bomb threat.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Vintage, 2011.

Translated from the Swedish.