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The stunning eighth installment in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sj?wall and Per Wahl?? 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 . “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 . . . Sj?wall and Wahl?? changed the ge

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Author

Sjowall, Maj; Wahlöö, Per

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007242986

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.97 / 5 (2,172 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14