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The Locked Room (The Martin Beck series, Book 8)

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Locked Room (The Martin Beck series, Book 8)

Contributors:

By (Author) Maj Sjwall
By (author) Per Wahl
Introduction by Michael Connelly

ISBN:

9780007439188

Series Number:

Book 8

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publication Date:

27th March 2012

UK Publication Date:

7th April 2016

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Fiction in translation

Dewey:

839.7374

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm

Weight:

250g

Description

The eighth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.
Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo.

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.

Reviews

I have never read a finer police story. Los Angeles Times

If you havent read Sjowall/Wahloo, start now. Sunday Telegraph

Their mysteries dont just read well; they reread even better. Witness, wife, petty cop or crook theyre all real characters even if they get just a few sentences. The plots hold, because theyre ingenious but never inhuman. New York Times

They changed the genre. Whoever is writing crime fiction after these novels is inspired by them in one way or another. Henning Mankell

Pick up one bookand you become unhinged. You want to block out a week of your life, lie to your boss, and stay in bed, gorging on one after another. Observer

The godparents of Scandinavian crime fiction Jo Nesbo

'Some of the most gripping crime fiction ever written' Michael Connelly

If you havent come across Beck before, youre in for a treat. Guardian

Author Bio

Maj Sjowall is a poet. She lives in Sweden.

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