The locked room : the story of a crime / Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Britten Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sjöwall, Maj, 1935-2020.

Contributor:

Wahlöö, Per, 1926-1975.

Series:

Vintage crime/Black Lizard

Vintage crime/Black lizard

Standardized Title:

Slutna rummet. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Beck, Martin (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Beck, Martin (Fictitious character).

Police--Sweden--Stockholm--Fiction.

Police.

Sweden--Stockholm.

Sweden--Fiction.

Sweden.

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

311 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage crime/Black lizard edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1992.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Translation of: Det slutna rummet.

ISBN:

0679742220

9780679742227

OCLC:

25788209

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