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Mass Market Paperback Untouchables: Untouchables Book

ISBN: 0671644491

ISBN13: 9780671644499

The Untouchables

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The Untouchables is the gripping true story of the team of men who broke the back of the vicious Chicago crime mob and its stranglehold on the nation, told by the man who orchestrated the effort. Enormously successful as a long-running TV series, The Untouchables should leap onto the bestseller lists when released as a major motion picture in June, starring Robert DeNiro and Sean Connery. Reissue. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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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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