Roseanna : a Martin Beck mystery / Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ; translated from the Swedish by Lois Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sjöwall, Maj, 1935-2020.

Contributor:

Wahlöö, Per, 1926-1975.

Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015.

Standardized Title:

Roseanna. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beck, Martin (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Beck, Martin (Fictitious character).

Police--Sweden--Stockholm--Fiction.

Police.

Sweden--Stockholm.

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Murder--Investigation.

Stockholm (Sweden)--Fiction.

Stockholm (Sweden).

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 212 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Second Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2008.

Summary:

"The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries ... finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler. On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues, Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a muderer with a distinctive -- indeed, terrifying -- sense of propriety"--P. [4] of cover.

Notes:

"With a new introduction by Henning Mankell"--P. [1] of cover.

"The first Martin Beck mystery"--P. [1] of cover.

"Vintage Crime/Black Lizard."

ISBN:

9780307390462

0307390462

OCLC:

191922990

Publisher Number:

99934735419