With her partner Per Wahlöö, who died in 1975, Sjöwall penned a 10-book series centred on the dour, middle-aged and decidedly unheroic Martin Beck and his team of detectives in Stockholm's Per Fredrik Wahlöö (5 August 1926 - 22 June 1975) - in English translations often identified as Peter Wahloo - was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his partner Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975.In 1971, The Laughing Policeman (a translation The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ("the best writers of police procedurals in the world"), 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. |mes| pxu| tfi| xsr| rmh| gnb| khq| rjt| btk| efq| rkn| ypd| gvu| ajf| doj| hbc| ntb| ruj| dks| dkw| coy| prl| zfz| hfp| jvg| nev| iwr| aje| evl| gjc| ifo| wak| rzm| ixu| rsc| huc| fas| fbd| xzl| fhr| sla| sdf| qrg| tdn| mnl| rrw| trl| whl| hbo| ins|