The Locked Room: The Story of a Crime - Brossura

Sjowall, Maj; Wahloo, Per

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ISBN 10: 0679742220 ISBN 13: 9780679742227

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 1995

Riassunto

A woman robs a bank. A corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within--no firearm in sight. To the eerily intuitive Inspector Martin Beck, these seemingly disparate cases are facets of the same puzzle, and solving it is of vital importance.   Only by finding our what happened in the locked room can Beck--haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and the demise of a soulless marriage--escape from an airtight prison of his own.

From its classic premise, The Locked Room accelerates into an engrossing novel of the mind. Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, and set against the backdrop of the inspired deductions and monstrous errors of Martin Beck and the Stockholm Homicide Squad, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life.

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Recensione:

"The Wahlöös best--their densest in person and place, their most penetrating in sociology and psychology." --Judith Crist

"[Martin Beck is] a man driven to solve puzzles, with a small tragic intuition swimming deep is his mental waters that will surface suddenly to give a muted howl and then dive down again." --The New York Times

L'autore:

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, her husband and coauthor, wrote ten Martin Beck mysteries.  Mr. Wahlöö, who died in 1975, was a reporter for several Swedish newspapers and magazines and wrote numerous radio and television plays, film scripts, short stories, and novels.  Maj Sjöwall was also a poet.

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• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679742220
• ISBN 13: 9780679742227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 311