The Treacherous Net by Tursten Helene

Author:Tursten, Helene [Tursten, Helene]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Reference, International Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Women Sleuths, Crime Fiction, Police Procedurals
Publisher: Soho Crime
Published: 2015-12-15T06:00:00+00:00

There had been no difficulty in getting a hold of Oscar Leutnerwall; he was in the phone book. Both Andersson and Fryxender had been surprised to find him there. The name listed above was Astrid Leutnerwall, with the same address on one of the streets above Näckrosdammen, but a different telephone number.

According to the information they had found, Oscar Valentin Leutnerwall was born on December 15, 1915. He was the son of a lawyer, Valentin Leutnerwall, and his wife, Siri, née Adelskiöld. The couple also had a daughter, Astrid, and a son who had died of meningitis at the age of only two.

Oscar had pursued a career within the Swedish diplomatic service, and in 1939 he was appointed to a post as attaché with the Foreign Office. From October 1941 and for most of the Second World War, he served in Moscow. After the war he spent a few years at the Swedish embassy in London before returning to Sweden to work in the Foreign Office in Stockholm. He had spent the last ten years of his professional life as Sweden’s ambassador in London.

“He retired twenty-five years ago!” Fryxender exclaimed, sounding impressed.

“Personally I’ll be glad if I make it to the first of November,” Andersson muttered.

“He worked until he was sixty-eight,” Fryxender said, looking down at the sheet of paper giving Oscar Leutnerwall’s personal details and list of awards.

“His cousin didn’t.”

“No. He retired at sixty-two.”

Fryxender picked up the other sheaf of papers on his desk.

Carl-Johan Henric Adelskiöld was born on October 23, 1917. Fryxender had also managed to confirm his initial assumption that Carl-Johan’s and Oscar’s mothers were sisters. Carl-Johan had been an only child. He had followed in his cousin’s footsteps and read law at Uppsala. He completed his studies quickly and started work at the Foreign Office in 1941. Around Christmastime he was sent to join Oscar in Moscow, where he remained until the end of the war in 1945. He returned to Sweden, then served in various embassies and legations around the world. A gifted linguist, Carl-Johan had spent the last five years of his professional life as Sweden’s chargé d’affaires in Berlin. When he retired in 1980, he moved back to his hometown of Göteborg and into one of the apartments in the building on Korsvägen, which he had inherited from his parents several years earlier.

“The cousins have quite a few things in common,” Fryxender said, placing the two sets of papers neatly beside each other on his desk.

“You mean they both worked for the Foreign Office?”

“Yes, let’s start there. They both went to the Foreign Office straight after university. They were both sent to Moscow. They were both there during the war. Do you know who else was in Moscow in 1940 and ’41?”

Andersson thought for a moment before he came up with the obvious answer.

“Stig Wennerström.”

“Bravo! He was air attaché.”

“What does that entail?”

“I’ve no idea. It’s a military title. But that’s not important. The interesting thing is that the cousins and Wennerström were in Moscow at the same time.

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