The abominable man A Martin Beck mystery
Book - 2009
"Seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series," together known as "The story of crime." "The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strong-arm police work and sheer brutality. Martin Beck and his colleagues feverishly comb Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman, who has plans for even more chaos. As the tension builds and a feeling of imminent danger grips Beck, his investigation unearths evidence of police corruption."
Saved in:
- Subjects
- Genres
- Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Mystery fiction - Published
-
New York :
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
[2009]
- Language
- English
Swedish - Main Author
- Other Authors
- ,
- Edition
- Second Vintage Crime / Black Lizard edition
- Item Description
- Introduction, ©2009 ; This translation originally published in a slightly different form in hardcover in the U.S. by Pantheon Books,1972, and by Vintage Books, 1980. -- T.p. verso.
- Physical Description
- x, 215 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9780307390905
Contents unavailable.