This is all complicated by the time of year: it’s Christmas and the hotel is packed with rich foreigners “most of them tourists wearing traditional Icelandic sweaters, hiking boots and thick winter clothing”. A condom hung from his penis.Įrlunder, together with the help of his two colleagues, Sigurdur Oli and Elinborg, immediately launches an investigation into the crime, but this is hindered on two fronts: first, no-one seems to know much about the victim despite the fact he had worked at the hotel for so long and second, the manager wants the crime to be hushed up to save the hotel’s reputation and to “avoid arousing fear among the guests”. His hands had slash marks on them, as if he had tried to fight off the assailant. Although there were other wounds on the body, the stabbing through the heart had finished him off.
Beneath it he was wearing only a white vest. He had undone the thick belt around his waist and unbuttoned his jacket. A large artificial Santa beard hid his face. He was wearing a bright red Santa suit and still had the Santa cap on his head, but it had slipped down over his eyes. The man was sitting on the bed, leaning against the wall.
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