In 1923, a week before Easter, two Norwegian authors released a crime novel about a train heist. It became a massive hit in part due to a newspaper ad designed to look like a real article about the fictional crime. Since then reading crime fiction has become an Easter tradition for many Norwegians.

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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

Easter is the principal festival of the Christian church, a celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. So where do the colored eggs fit in? The egg was a widely used premodern and pre-Christian symbol of fertility and restoration. European “Pagans” (a