Martin BeckSéries

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.

The Fire Engine That Disappeared: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (5)

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1
Roseanna
Per Wahlöö
288pages
11 heures de lecture
3,9(251)Évaluer
On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive--indeed, terrifying--sense of propriety.
2
The Man who Went up in Smoke
Per Wahlöö
288pages
11 heures de lecture
3,8(142)Évaluer
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.
2
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (2)
Maj Sjöwall
183pages
7 heures de lecture
3,8(321)Évaluer
The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck searching Budapest for a well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace. With an introduction by Val McDermid: "So many of the elements that have become integral...in the police procedural subgenre started life in these ten novels....Their plots are second to none." Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vacation abruptly terminated when the top brass at the foreign office pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known Swedish journalist who has vanished. Beck investigates viperous Eastern European underworld figures and--at the risk of his life--stumbles upon the international racket in which Matsson was involved. With the coolly efficient local police on his side and a predatory nymphet on his tail, Beck pursues a case whose international implications grow with each new clue.
3
The Man on the Balcony
Maj Sjöwall
208pages
8 heures de lecture
4,3(133)Évaluer
The third book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.
3
The Man on the Balcony: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (3)
Maj Sjöwall
180pages
7 heures de lecture
4,0(256)Évaluer
In this chilling installment of “the first great series of police thrillers” (Michael Ondaatje, national bestselling author of Warlight) by an internationally renowned crime duo, superintendent Martin Beck investigates a string of child murders. In the once peaceful parks of Stockholm, a killer is stalking young girls and disposing their bodies. The city is on edge, and an undercurrent of fear has gripped its residents. Martin Beck, now a superintendent, has two possible witnesses: a silent, stone-cold mugger and a mute three year old boy. With the likelihood of another murder growing as each day passes, the police force work night and day. But their efforts have offered little insight into the methodology of the killer. Then a distant memory resurfaces in Beck's mind, and he may just have the break he needs.
4
The laughing policeman
Alan Blair
288pages
11 heures de lecture
4,4(400)Évaluer
On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs him a madman. But Martin Beck of the Homicide Squad suspects otherwise: this apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Beck's best detectives.
5
The Fire Engine That Disappeared: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (5)
Maj Sjöwall
213pages
8 heures de lecture
4,0(277)Évaluer
The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career.The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe because somehow a regulation fire-truck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak? And what if, anything, did the explosion have to do with the peculiar death earlier that day of a 46-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: "Martin Beck"?
5
The Fire Engine that Disappeared
Per Wahlöö
288pages
11 heures de lecture
4,0(3909)Évaluer
Commissioner Martin Beck's associates begin a search for a ladder truck whose disappearance resulted in the death of eleven people.
6
Murder at the Savoy
Maj Sjöwall
3,8(185)Évaluer
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
Per Wahlöö
288pages
11 heures de lecture
4,0(3789)Évaluer
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.
8
The Locked Room
Per Wahlöö
4,0(3846)Évaluer
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
Cop Killer
Maj Sjöwall
4,1(226)Évaluer
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
The Terrorists
Per Wahlöö
4,2(89)Évaluer
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.