The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries by Henning Mankell

Author:Henning Mankell [Mankell, Henning]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9781565849945
Goodreads: 3281831
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 1999-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

The squad was finally able to start the meeting at ten o’clock in the morning. The delay was due to the fact that Wallander had not been able to get back from the dentist’s before then. Now he was hurrying back for the meeting, his tooth provisionally repaired, with a swollen cheek and a large bandage at his hairline. He was beginning to feel the effects of his lack of sleep. But more serious was the anxiety gnawing at him.

It had now been one day since Hilda Waldén had discovered the dead photographer. Wallander began the meeting by summing up the state of their investigation. He then told them in detail what had happened during the night.

“The changed radio station is strange,” Svedberg said. “Can there have been anything inside the radio itself?”

“We’ve examined it,” Nyberg answered. “In order to remove the cover you have to loosen eight screws. This has not been done. The radio has never been opened since it was assembled at the factory. The finish still covers the screw heads.”

“There is a lot that’s strange,” Wallander said. “Something we shouldn’t forget is the album with the distorted images. His widow tells us that Simon Lamberg was a man who had many secrets. Right now we should be concentrating on creating a better picture of who he really was. Clearly, the surface does not match up with what was underneath. The polite, quiet, and fastidious photographer must in reality have been someone quite different.”

“The question is just who would know more about him,” Martinsson said. “If, as seems to be the case, he doesn’t have any friends. No one seems to have known him.”

“We have the amateur astronomers in Lund,” Wallander said. “We have to get in touch with them, of course. Former assistants who worked for him. You can’t live your whole life in a town like Ystad without anybody knowing you. And we’ve barely begun our conversations with Elisabeth Lamberg. In other words, we have a lot to dig into. Everything has to be pursued simultaneously.”

“I spoke with Backman,” Svedberg said. “You were right about him being up. When I arrived at his apartment his wife was also up and dressed. It felt like the middle of the day, even though it was only four in the morning. Unfortunately he could not give any kind of description of the man who knocked you down. Nothing apart from the man’s coat being mid-length and most likely navy blue.”

“Couldn’t he even say anything about the man’s height? Was he short or tall? What color was his hair?”

“It all happened very fast. Backman only wanted to say what he felt sure about.”

“We know at least one thing about the man who attacked me,” Wallander said. “That he ran much faster than I did. My impression was that he was of average height and fairly strong. He was also in much better shape than I am. My sense—even if it’s somewhat vague—is that he may have been around my age.

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