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Paperback The Locked Room: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (8) Book

ISBN: 0307390497

ISBN13: 9780307390493

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(Book #8 in the Martin Beck Series)

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The stunning eighth installment in the Martin Beck mystery series by the renowned Swedish crime writing duo is a masterful take on a classic locked room mystery. With an introduction by Michael Connelly: One of the most authentic, gripping, and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished.

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.

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Rated 5 stars
my favourite of the series

I have enjoyed all 10 of the Sjowall Wahloo series featuring Martin Beck as the Stockholm detective of murder mysteries. However, this one's plot is just so brilliant and ironic, it has to be the best. Not only the plot but also the development of both major and minor characters, the way the social commentary is integrated here, and the subplot of the landlady who seems to mean more to Martin Beck than he realizes himself,...

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Rated 5 stars
Great

The seventh Martin Beck novel. Recovering from his misadventures in "The Abominable Man", Beck takes up a seemingly unsolvable case: a friendless, elderly miser, shot one time in the head in a one-bedroom apartment, with locked doors and locked windows, and no gun in sight. Meanwhile, his colleagues are investigating the high-profile shooting of a security guard during a daring bank robbery conducted, apparently, by a beautiful...

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Rated 5 stars
Thoroughly enjoyable

The characteristic of a murder mystery that I have always loved is the way the sharp edge of a murder investigation slices through the layers of society. In this book, we have a decaying police force depicted with all of its warts and heros, and a group of common criminals who know no other means of support. The murder mystery ambles along at a comfortable pace, as we watch the police investigation of bank robberies become...

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Rated 5 stars
an exellent police novell

this is a very good book. If you like the other martin beck books you will enjoy this one as well. This book is one the books that hasn't been made into a film wich is good I think. No fillm really does the characters justice.

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Rated 5 stars
best of the bunch

I'm assuming that this series is so intelligent and underappreciated that I'm preaching to the converted, however, I've read em all and this and Fire Engine That Disappeared are the best

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