Stieg Larsson twist in Swedish PM Palme's unsolved murder

Sweden’s greatest unsolved murder mystery has taken another twist — revelations that the Swedish crime blockbuster novelist, Stieg Larsson, had sent police evidence linking prime minister Olof Palme’s 1986 murder to South Africa.

Svenska Dagbladet news-paper reported the novelist behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sent police 15 boxes of papers that he said linked Palme’s shooting to a Swedish former military officer alleged to have links to South African security services.