Roseanna
- 245 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
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 Serie
Esta serie sigue a un detective pragmático en el crudo mundo de Estocolmo mientras aborda crímenes complejos. Cada caso no solo desvela los lados oscuros de la naturaleza humana, sino que también ofrece una crítica aguda de la sociedad y la política sueca. Las emocionantes tramas se complementan con representaciones realistas del trabajo policial y la profundidad psicológica de los personajes, convirtiéndola en un hito del género.
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The Man who Went up in Smoke
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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.
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.
The Laughing Policeman
- 224 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
The fourth in the Martin Beck series. One blustery November evening someone guns down eight occupants of a Stockholm bus - one of whom was a colleague of Martin Beck's. Eight people together purely by coincidence - perhaps. But, above all, why was that policeman - a solitary and ambitious man - on that bus?
Martin Beck Police Mystery - 5: The Fire Engine That Disappeared
- 218 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
With a New Introduction by Colin Dexter The cunning 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 since-for reasons nobody could satisfactorily explain-a regulation firetruck 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 forty-six-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: “Martin Beck”?
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!
El abominable hombre de Säffle
- 248 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Una de las características del ciclo de Martin Beck, creado por los escandinavos Maj Sjöwall y Per Wahlöö, es que los personajes envejecen en tiempo real. En este relato, la hija del comisario, ya conocida de niña, es ahora una joven capaz de ofrecer consejos influyentes a su padre. Los autores buscan conferir objetividad a su obra, trabajando en una seria investigación sociológica sobre las relaciones de los policías con la sociedad. Su intención es abordar el tema desde diferentes puntos de vista, incluyendo los masculinos y femeninos. Sin embargo, al leer hoy estos "novelas sobre un crimen", surge un sentido de pesimismo sobre la sociología y escepticismo respecto al orden público. Sjöwall y Wahlöö exploran la función de la violencia social y los cambios que provoca en policías, criminales y víctimas, destacando tanto las circunstancias sociales como los mecanismos psicológicos. La investigación sobre el asesinato de un alto mando de la policía, ocurrido en un hospital, revela maleficias cada vez más atroces, culminando en una venganza de sangre contra el cuerpo policial, un momento de realismo, suspense y piedad, en un contexto de ciudades capitalistas que actúan como teatros naturales para el crimen.
A woman robs a bank. A corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within--no firearm in sight. To the eerily intuitive Inspector Martin Beck, these seemingly disparate cases are facets of the same puzzle, and solving it is of vital importance. Only by finding our what happened in the locked room can Beck--haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and the demise of a soulless marriage--escape from an airtight prison of his own.From its classic premise, The Locked Room accelerates into an engrossing novel of the mind. Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, and set against the backdrop of the inspired deductions and monstrous errors of Martin Beck and the Stockholm Homicide Squad, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life.
Cop Killer
- 324 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
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?
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.
