Murder at the Savoy is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 crime novel and the sixth book out of ten in the 'Martin Beck

Martin Beck

Martin Beck is a fictional Swedish police detective who is the main character in a series of ten novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, collectively titled The Story of a Crime...

' detective series by Sjöwall and Wahlöö

Sjöwall and Wahlöö

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, a common-law wife and husband team of detective writers from Sweden. Together they conceived and wrote a series of ten novels about the exploits of detectives from the special homicide commission of the national police in which the character of Martin Beck was the...

 revolving around police detective Martin Beck.

Title

"Murder at the Savoy" is the English title of the novel. The Swedish title of the book, meaning "Police, police, mashed potatoes", is explained in a scene where Gunvald Larsson is telling off the miserably lazy policemen Kristiansson and Kvant. The two policemen had, instead of obeying their orders to arrest a suspect at Arlanda Airport, been arguing with a man whose 3-year-old son had shouted "Police, police, mashed potatoes" at the two policemen while they were eating Hot Dog

Hot dog

A hot dog is a sausage served in a sliced bun. It is very often garnished with mustard, ketchup, onions, mayonnaise, relish and/or sauerkraut.-History:...

 with mashed potatoes at a grill bar. This refers to the common rhyme "polis polis potatisgris" ("police, police, potato pig").

Plot

Martin Beck has to search through a high powered business man's many enemies when the business man is shot in front of a dozen witnesses at a high-end restaurant.

Film

The 1979 Russian film "Nezakonchennyy Uzhin," directed by Jānis Streičs

Janis Streics

Jānis Streičs is a Latvian film director.Streičs' 1991 comedy film Cilvēka bērns was runner-up for the Chicago International Children's Film Festival Rights of the Child Award in 1994...

, was based on the book.

The book was made into a film in 1993 by director Pelle Berglund.