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Summary: Good Police Detective Novel
Review: set in 70's Sweden, one of the "Martin Beck" Mysteries (there are 10 of them I think). Although they were Swedish, they made it into mainstream American Paperback print. Racy covers with contradictorily reasonably serious themes and decent writing."And just why is it not longer in print?" one of the bureaucrats might ask. "Ridiculous" Beck might think under his breath. These books give me the feeling that the authors really had a lot of experience in the world of police detective work. I don't know if they did or not. I think perhaps they were journalists who covered some criminal investigations. There isn't a gunfight on every other page, and they don't get the guy who did it quite as easily as all that. The work is methodical and frustrating, but in the end things get done and in the end the book is a satisfying read with small insights into both the work and the lives of the men. This particular one has a good bit of Gunvald Larsson (not exactly Beck's favorite colleague, but definitely my favorite character) and the brick walls he very nearly runs into in trying to solve this case. The comic relief, like the more serious moments, is reserved but very well done. I've reread some of the Larsson scenes many times. jl
Rating:
Summary: Good Police Detective Novel
Review: set in 70's Sweden, one of the "Martin Beck" Mysteries (there are 10 of them I think). Although they were Swedish, they made it into mainstream American Paperback print. Racy covers with contradictorily reasonably serious themes and decent writing. "And just why is it not longer in print?" one of the bureaucrats might ask. "Ridiculous" Beck might think under his breath. These books give me the feeling that the authors really had a lot of experience in the world of police detective work. I don't know if they did or not. I think perhaps they were journalists who covered some criminal investigations. There isn't a gunfight on every other page, and they don't get the guy who did it quite as easily as all that. The work is methodical and frustrating, but in the end things get done and in the end the book is a satisfying read with small insights into both the work and the lives of the men. This particular one has a good bit of Gunvald Larsson (not exactly Beck's favorite colleague, but definitely my favorite character) and the brick walls he very nearly runs into in trying to solve this case. The comic relief, like the more serious moments, is reserved but very well done. I've reread some of the Larsson scenes many times. jl
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Summary: read this book
Review: thanks to amazon.com for this forum and I don't want to step on any toes, but if you need to read this book I will lend you my copy until they get some in stock
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Summary: Another excellent entry in the series
Review: The fifth Martin Beck novel. When an apartment building under police surveillance mysteriously explodes in the middle of the night, it's up to Beck to solve the crime. Was it terrorism? Assassination? Or just a gas leak? One of the better novels in the series, this is the first one to deal seriously with organized crime and the underworld. It also gives more time to the hilarious Gunvald Larsson, introduced in earlier novels but here playing a major supporting role. An excellent crime thriller.
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