The Laughing Policeman
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]...
show more
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).
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679742234 (0679742239)
ASIN: 0679742239
Publish date: 1992-12-01
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Scandinavian Literature,
Sweden,
Swedish Literature,
Fiction
bookshelves: radio-4, series, sweden, politics, mystery-thriller, fradio, autumn-2012 Recommended for: BBC radio listeners Read from November 15 to 17, 2012 17th November: Saturday Drama The Martin Beck Series, The Laughing Policeman4/10 The investigation of a mass shooting leads Beck back to an...
17th November: Saturday Drama The Martin Beck Series, The Laughing Policeman4/10 The investigation of a mass shooting leads Beck back to an unsolved case from the past.BBC blurb: In the fourth of the Martin Beck Killings, Beck is now a Detective Superintendant. But his promotion hasn't made him any ...
Favourite so far
A great book with a neat ending
Before Stieg Larsson, before Jo Nesbø or Henning Mankell, Scandinavian crime fiction was dominated by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, journalists and common-law married writing partners from Sweden. In the 1960s, the couple set about to write 10 books in 10 years, each 30 chapters long, which they plott...
Log in with Facebook 
