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Martin Beck’s Malaise

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Martin Beck’s Malaise

Sean & Nicci French, in their introduction to the fourth Martin Beck novel, The Laughing Policeman (Harper Perennial edition), remind us once again that Martin Beck was “the prototype of the brilliant tormented detective.” Many other moody sleuths such as fellow Swede Kurt Wallander, Norwegians Konrad Sejer and Harry Hole, and … [Read more...]

Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo’s Martin Beck

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Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo’s Martin Beck

Is Martin Beck the original moody sleuth? I ended my last full post (September 4, 2013) saying I’d finally begun reading Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Martin Beck novels, though I don’t rightly know how I managed to cultivate such a passion for ‘moody sleuths’ without coming across Martin Beck much sooner, especially since so many crime … [Read more...]

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