Sariola worked in a bank, at a law firm, and as a teacher before becoming a crime reporter for Helsingin Sanomat. He published his first mystery in 1956. One of them, The Helsinki Affair, was awarded a French prize, the Prix du Roman d'adventure. By the time of his death in 1985, he had published nearly 80 books, some of them under the pseudonym Esko Laukko.
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