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Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
HTML: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 roomwith 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.… (más)
ehines: For an American like I am, Sweden is an almost mythical land--a sort of soft-porn socialist paradise. Both these books let you in on a very different side of Sweden. More real, but not offputting.
Dos casos sin resolver, tres policías en apuros y un asesino suelto dispuesto a matar de nuevo. El comisario Martin Beck y su equipo se hallan en una encrucijada en que nada parece tener relación en sí, pese a que todo apunta a lo contrario: un banco ha sido atracado en una parte de la ciudad, mientras que en otra se ha encontrado un cadáver en una habitación cerrada a cal y canto, sin arma ni pista alguna en la escena del crimen. ¿La situación podría ser peor?
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The bells of St Maria struck two as she came out from the metro station on Wollmar Yxkullsgatan.
(translation by Paul Britten Austin, 1973)
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Insurance companies have one urgent task: to earn as much money as possible. So they keep their personnel up to their ears in work. For the same reason they keep all their documents in apple-pie order, in a constant panic that someone may swindle them and gnaw unpunished into their profits. Nowadays this mad working tempo had tended to become an end in itself: "Impossible, we haven't got the time."
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
HTML: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 roomwith 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.