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.
Orden recomendado de lectura
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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.
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The Man on the Balcony: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (3)
- 180 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
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.
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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
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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!
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El abominable hombre de Säffle
- 248 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
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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.
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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?
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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.
