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påskekrim

POSS-keh-krim[ˈpôːskəˌkrɪm]

the crime novels and TV series Norway saves for Easter

Closest in English: crime-fiction, thriller, whodunit. None of them covers it.

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The story

In 1923 a Norwegian publisher advertised a crime novel on a newspaper front page as if it were news: the Bergen train robbed last night. Readers believed it, and Easter has belonged to murder ever since, milk cartons included. English has no fixed season for its whodunnits.

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  1. Which language is it from?Norwegian
  2. What does it literally say?Easter-crime
  3. Where would you hear it?A ski cabin and a paperback murder
  4. What does it mean?Easter spent solving fictional murders

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