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| Genre/Form: | Detective and mystery stories Electronic books Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Sjöwall, Maj, 1935- Roseanna. London : Harper Perennial, 2006, c1968 (OCoLC)263679724 |
| Material Type: | Document, Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maj Sjöwall; Per Wahlöö; Lois Roth |
| ISBN: | 9780007324378 0007324375 |
| OCLC Number: | 688605016 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Swedish. |
| Notes: | This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1967; London: Gollancz, 1968. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (245, 16 p.) |
| Series Title: | Martin Beck series. |
| Other Titles: | Roseanna. |
| Responsibility: | Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo ; translated from the Swedish by Lois Roth. |
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Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
'The writing is elegant and surprisingly humorous -- if you haven't come across Beck before, you're in for a treat.' Guardian 'I have never read a finer police story.' Los Angeles Times 'The decalogue about the Swedish Chief Inspector Martin Beck created by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo during the 1960s and 1970s are indeed classic police fiction. They changed the genre. Whoever is writing crime fiction after these novels inspired by them in one way or another.' Henning Mankell 'If you haven't read Sjowall/Wahloo, start now.' Sunday Telegraph 'Their mysteries don't just read well; they reread even better. Witness, wife, petty cop or crook -- they're all real characters even if they get just a few sentences. The plots hold, because they're ingenious but never inhuman.' New York Times Read more...
