Talking to Gudlaugur’s estranged father and sister and his old choirmaster Gabríel fills in many details of Gudlaugur’s fall from fame, which involved an embarrassing public performance and a subsequent battle with his father so fierce that it left the old man confined to a wheelchair. Indeed, hotel guest Henry Wapshott had come all the way from England to meet him. Gudlaugur was a boy soprano with a brief but spectacular career. A little digging reveals a remarkable story.
But the hotel manager sheepishly acknowledges that he’d just fired Gudlaugur, apparently leaving him with no other prospects. Reykjavík police inspector Erlendur, with sidekicks Sigurdur Óli and Elinborg, is summoned to a posh hotel to investigate the murder of Gudlaugur Egilsson, found stabbed in his modest basement digs with a condom hanging from his “ditty.” Saliva samples are taken of guests and employees, none of whom admits personally knowing the 50-ish doorman/handyman.
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