✦ LIBER ✦

The Locked Room

✍ Scribed by Sjowall, Maj; Wahlöö, Per

Book ID: 108614652
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 1972
Tongue: English
Weight: 163 KB
Series: Martin Beck 8
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780007242986

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The stunning eighth installment in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is a masterful take on a classic locked room mystery.

A young blonde in sunglasses robs a bank and kills a hapless citizen. Across town, a corpse with a bullet shot through its heart is found in a locked room–with no gun at the scene. The crimes seem disparate, but to Martin Beck they are two pieces of the same puzzle, and solving it becomes the one way he can escape the pains of his failed marriage and the lingering effects of a near-fatal bullet wound. Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life.

Review

“The best yet in a superb series of mysteries.”– Minneapolis Tribune
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“One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished.”–Michael Connelly

“It’s hard to think of any other thriller writers (apart from Simenon perhaps) who can capture so much of a society in a couple of hundred pages and yet still hold true to the thriller form.”–Sean and Nicci French

“Lively, stylistically taut . . . Sjöwall and Wahlöö changed the genre.”–Henning Mankell

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Swedish

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