The first book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.
Martin Beck Séries
Cette série suit un détective pragmatique dans le monde âpre de Stockholm alors qu'il s'attaque à des crimes complexes. Chaque affaire révèle non seulement les côtés sombres de la nature humaine, mais offre également une critique acerbe de la société et de la politique suédoises. Les intrigues palpitantes sont complétées par des représentations réalistes du travail de police et une profondeur psychologique des personnages, ce qui en fait un jalon du genre.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
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The Man who Went up in Smoke
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Part of the classic series, this title follows the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck. He finds himself packed off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace. Beck must troll about in the Eastern Europe underworld for a man nobody knows, with the aid of the coolly efficient local police.
- 3
L'homme au balcon
- 254pages
- 9 heures de lecture
- 4
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 Ýa student ̈ of the best detective fiction" ("Saturday Review").
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The Fire Engine that Disappeared
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Commissioner Martin Beck's associates begin a search for a ladder truck whose disappearance resulted in the death of eleven people.
- 6
When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful industrialist, is casually shot during an after-dinner speech, the repurcussions -- both on the international money markets and on the residents of the small coastal town of Malmo -- are widespread. Chief Inspector Martin Beck is called in to help catch a killer nobody, not even the victim, was able to identify. He begins a systemic search for the friends, enemies, business associates and call girls who may have wanted Palmgren dead -- but in the process he finds to his dismay that he has nothing but contempt for the victim and sympathy for the murderer!
- 7
The Abominable Man
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
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.
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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.
- 9
A woman is found dead in Anderslöv, a small village in southern Sweden. While Martin Beck investigates her murder, his colleague Larsson becomes embroiled in the hunt for two men responsible for the death of a policeman during a shoot out on the open road. Are the two cases related?
- 10
An American senator is visiting Stockholm. A group of terrorists is determined to assassinate him. Detective Inspector Martin Beck is determined to stop them. At the same time, there is the ambiguous case of a young woman on trial, the latest in a long string of bank robberies, and a millionaire porn filmmaker found brutally murdered.
