Maj Sjöwall

Per Wahlöö

Maj Sjowall

Per Wahloo

On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people. With its authentically rendered settings and vividly realized characters, and its command over the intricately woven details of police detection, Roseanna is a masterpiece of suspense and sadness.

Roseanna

With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, The Laughing Policeman is a classic of the police procedural and "must reading for anyone who claims to be [a student] of the best detective fiction" (Saturday Review).

The Laughing Policeman

His holiday has just begun: an August spent with his family on a small island off the coast of Sweden. But when a neighbor gets a phone call, Martin Beck finds himself packed off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace. Instead of passing leisurely sun-filled days with his children, Beck must troll about in the Eastern Europe underworld for a man nobody knows, with the aid of the coolly efficient local police, who do business while soaking at the public baths--and at the risk of vanishing along with his quarry.

The Man who Went Up in Smoke

The Final Classic Installment In The Excellent Martin Beck Detective Series From The 1960S The Novels That Have Inspired All Crime Fiction Written Ever Since. Widely Recognised As The Greatest Masterpieces Of Crime Fiction Ever Written, These Are The Original Detective Stories That Pioneered The Detective Genre. Written In The 1960S, They Are The Work Of Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo A Husband And Wife Team From Sweden. The Ten Novels Follow The Fortunes Of The Detective Martin Beck, Whose Enigmatic, Taciturn Character Has Inspired Countless Other Policemen In Crime Fiction. The Novels Can Be Read Separately, But Do Follow A Chronological Order, So The Reader Can Become Familiar With The Characters And Develop A Loyalty To The Series. Each Book Will Have A New Introduction In Order To Help Bring These Books To A New Audience

The Terrorists

The Eighth Classic Instalment In This Genre-Changing Series Of Novels Starring Detective Inspector Martin Beck. This New Edition Has An Introduction By Michael Connolly. In One Part Of Town, A Woman Robs A Bank. In Another, A Corpse Is Found Shot Through The Heart In A Room Locked From Within, With No Firearm In Sight. Although The Two Incidents Appear Unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck Believes Otherwise, And Solving The Mystery Acquires The Utmost Importance. Haunted By A Near-Fatal Bullet Wound And Trying To Recover From The Break-Up Of His Unhappy Marriage, Beck Throws Himself Into The Case To Escape From The Prison That His Own Life Has Come To Resemble. Written In The 1960S, These Masterpieces Are The Work Of Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo A Husband And Wife Team From Sweden. The Ten Novels Follow The Fortunes Of The Detective Martin Beck, Whose Enigmatic, Taciturn Character Has Inspired Countless Other Policemen In Crime Fiction. The Novels Can Be Read Separately, But Do Follow A Chronological Order, So The Reader Can Become Familiar With The Characters And Develop A Loyalty To The Series. Each Book Will Have A New Introduction In Order To Help Bring These Books To A New Audience.

The Locked Room

The Seventh Classic Instalment In This Genre-Changing Series Of Novels Featuring Detective Inspector Martin Beck. On A Quiet Night A High-Ranking Police Officer, Nyland, Is Slaughtered In His Hospital Bed, Brutally Massacred With A Bayonet. It'S Not Hard To Find People With A Motive To Kill Him; In Fact The Problem For Detective Inspector Martin Beck Is How To Narrow The List Down To One Suspect. But As He Investigates Nyland'S Murder He Must Confront Whether He Is Willing To Risk His Life For His Job. Written In The 1960S, These Masterpieces Are The Work Of Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo A Husband And Wife Team From Sweden. The Ten Novels Follow The Fortunes Of The Detective Martin Beck, Whose Enigmatic, Taciturn Character Has Inspired Countless Other Policemen In Crime Fiction. The Novels Can Be Read Separately, But Do Follow A Chronological Order, So The Reader Can Become Familiar With The Characters And Develop A Loyalty To The Series. Each Book Will Have A New Introduction In Order To Help Bring These Books To A New Audience.

The Abominable Man

The excellent fifth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s -- the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since. Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre. Gunvald Larsson sits carefully observing the dingy Stockholm apartment of a man under police surveillance. He looks at his watch: nine minutes past eleven in the evening. He yawns, slapping his arms to keep warm. At the same moment the house explodes, killing at least three people. Chief Inspector Martin Beck and his men don't suspect arson or murder until they discover a peculiar circumstance and a link is established between the explosion and a suicide committed that same day, in which the dead man left a note consisting of just two words: Martin Beck. Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo -- a husband and wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction. The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book has a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.

The Fire Engine that Disappeared

The Thrilling Ninth Classic Installment In The Martin Beck Detective Series From The 1960S The Novels That Have Inspired All Crime Fiction Written Ever Since. Widely Recognised As The Greatest Masterpieces Of Crime Fiction Ever Written, These Are The Original Detective Stories That Pioneered The Detective Genre. Written In The 1960S, They Are The Work Of Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo A Husband And Wife Team From Sweden. The Ten Novels Follow The Fortunes Of The Detective Martin Beck, Whose Enigmatic, Taciturn Character Has Inspired Countless Other Policemen In Crime Fiction. The Novels Can Be Read Separately, But Do Follow A Chronological Order, So The Reader Can Become Familiar With The Characters And Develop A Loyalty To The Series. Each Book Will Have A New Introduction In Order To Help Bring These Books To A New Audience.

Cop Killer

The murder of Victor Palmgren, a Swedish industrialist, leads Martin Beck and his fellow detectives into an intense hunt for the killer

Murder at the Savoy

Alan Blair

Swedish police superintendent Martin Beck conducts a thorough investigation of a series of brutal muggings and child sex murders

The Story of a Crime

The Man on the Balcony

Sjöwall, Wahlöö. ...

"Roman über ein Verbrechen"

Niemand kennt die Tote, die aus dem Götakanal gefischt wurde. Kommissar Beck tappt im Dunkeln, bis er schliesslich auf eine ungewöhnliche Methode verfällt, den Fall zu lösen.

Ein Kommissar-Beck-Roman

Die Tote im Götakanal

Viktor Palmgren, puissant industriel à l'immense fortune, est abattu dans le luxueux restaurant de l'hôtel Savoy, à Malmö, devant ses principaux collaborateurs. Le tueur parvient à prendre la fuite. La personnalité de Palmgren, ses nombreux ennemis, la nature douteuse de certaines de ses activités font craindre un meurtre politique, alors que dans son ombre, les proches de la victime avaient eux aussi des raisons de vouloir s'en débarrasser. Après une période de cafouillage typique de l'impéritie policière, Martin Beck est envoyé dans le sud de la Suède aider Per Mânsson à mettre le nez dans les affaires de l'empire Palmgren. Critique acide de la désagrégation sociale provoquée par l'affairisme et l'avidité, meurtre au Savoy est un modèle de police procédural doté d'une conscience sociale aiguë. Maj Sjowall et Per Wahloô ont écrit, entre 1965 et 1975, une série de dix romans mettant en scène l'enquêteur Martin Beck et son équipe. Cette œuvre, qui a marqué la littérature policière occidentale, est republiée dans des traductions entièrement revues à partir de l'original suédois.

Le roman d'un crime

Meurtre au Savoy

Someone is killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm - killing them after having his own way with them. The people of Stockholm are tense and fearful. Police Superintendent, Martin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won't say much and a three-year-old boy who can't say much.

"The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries ... finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler. On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues, Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a muderer with a distinctive -- indeed, terrifying -- sense of propriety"--P. [4] of cover.

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