Marsvinsholm Castle. The theatre group Ystads Stående Teatersällskap has its home in the grounds and each summer they perform here on the outdoor stage..On 3rd April 1990, an elderly couple were brutally robbed on their farm in the village of Knickarp north of Ystad. Mankell used this horrific event as the background to his first Wallander story, "Faceless Killers". In Mankell's story, which is based in the fictitious village of Lenarp on the outskirts of Marsvinsholm, the couple are murdered.
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