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In this analysis I compare two Swedish crime novels through a Marxist literary perspective. I compare how the policeman Viktor Adolphson and the social researcher Rickard Ulmestig chooses to describe the same line of work, namely police work, in their books Götgatsbacken and Schackspelet. With the theoretical framework of Marxism, I will explore the ideologies behind the texts by gathering information on the authors, the history of policing and the crime genre in a Swedish context. This will culminate in a comparative analysis of relevant scenes. The goal is to understand what ideological framework the authors have knowingly or unknowingly infused in their text.