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The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, Jonathan Franzen The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series finds Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass murderer. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass-murderer. With a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen: “Ive read The Laughing Policeman six or eight times. Each time I reach the final twist on the final page, I shiver afresh.” On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by a mysterious assassin. The press portrays it as a freak attack and dubs the killer a madman. But Superintendent Martin Beck thinks otherwise—one of his most ambitious young detectives was among those killed—and he suspects it was more than coincidence. Working on a hunch, Beck seeks out the girlfriend of the murdered detective, and with her help Beck reconstructs the steps that led to his murder. The police comb the country for the killer, only to find that this attack may be connected to a case that has been unsolved for years. Author Biography Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, her husband and coauthor, wrote ten Martin Beck mysteries. They plotted and researched each book together then wrote alternate chapters. The books were written over a ten year period and carefully planned to allow for gradual character development and evolving social commentary as the series continued. 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 is also a poet. Review “A tantalizing, intricate tale.” —The New York Times Book Review “Sjöwall and Wahlöö write unsparingly and unswervingly. . . . Their plots are second to none.” —Val McDermid”Magically successful, a series of crime novels you shouldnt miss.”—Minneapolis Tribune “Lively and stylistically taut. . . . Sjöwall and Wahlöö changed the genre.” —Henning Mankell Review Quote “Ive readThe Laughing Policemansix or eight times. Each time I reach the final twist on the final page, I shiver afresh.” -Jonathan Franzen “A tantalizing, intricate tale.” -The New York Times Book Review “Sj Excerpt from Book 1On the evening of the thirteenth of November it was pouring in Stockholm. Martin Beck and Kollberg sat over a game of chess in the latters apartment not far from the subway station of Skarmarbrink in the southern suburbs. Both were off duty insomuch as nothing special had happened during the last few days.Martin Beck was very bad at chess but played all the same. Kollberg had a daughter who was just over two months old. On this particular evening he was forced to baby-sit, and Martin Beck on the other hand had no wish to go home before it was absolutely necessary. The weather was abominable. Driving curtains of rain swept over the rooftops, pattering against the windows, and the streets lay almost deserted; the few people to be seen evidently had urgent reasons to be out on such a night.Outside the American embassy on Strandvagen and along the streets leading to it, 412 policemen were struggling with about twice as many demonstrators. The police were equipped with tear gas bombs, pistols, whips, batons, cars, motorcycles, shortwave radios, battery megaphones, riot dogs and hysterical horses. The demonstrators were armed with a letter and cardboard signs, which grew more and more sodden in the pelting rain. It was difficult to regard them as a homogeneous group, for the crowd comprised every possible kind of person, from thirteen-year-old schoolgirls in jeans and duffel coats and dead-serious political students to agitators and professional troublemakers, and at least one eighty-five-year-old woman artist with a beret and a blue silk umbrella. Some strong common motive had induced them to defy both the rain and whatever else was in store. The police, on the other hand, by no means comprised the forces elite. They had been mustered from every available precinct in town, but every policeman who knew a doctor or was good at dodging had managed to escape this unpleasant assignment. There remained those who knew what they were doing and liked it, and those who were considered cocky and who were far too young and inexperienced to try and get out of it; besides, they hadnt a clue as to what they were doing or why they were doing it. The horses reared up, chewing their bits, and the police fingered their holsters and made charge after charge with their batons. A small girl was bearing a sign with the memorable text: DO YOUR DUTY! KEEP FUCKING AND MAKE MORE POLICE! Three 190-pound patrolmen flung themselves at her, tore the sign to pieces and dragged her into a squad car, where they twisted her arms and pawed her breasts. She had turned thirteen on this very day and had not yet developed any.Altogether more than fifty persons were seized. Many were bleeding. Some were celebrities, who were not above writing to the papers or complaining on the radio and television. At the sight of them, the sergeants on duty at the local police stations had a fit of the shivers and showed them the door with apologetic smiles and stiff bows. Others were less well treated during the inevitable questioning. A mounted policeman had been hit on the head by an empty bottle and someone must have thrown it.The operation was in the charge of a high-ranking police officer trained at a military school. He was considered an expert on keeping order and he regarded with satisfaction the utter chaos he had managed to achieve.In the apartment at Skarmarbrink, Kollberg gathered up the chessmen, jumbled them into the wooden box and shut the sliding lid with a smack. His wife had come home from her evening course and gone straight to bed.”Youll never learn this,” Kollberg said plaintively.”They say you need a special gift for it,” Martin Beck replied gloomily. “Chess sense I think its called.”Kollberg changed the subject.”I bet theres a helluva to-do at Strandvagen this evening,” he said.”I expect so. Whats it all about?””They were going to hand a letter over to the ambassador,” Kollberg said. “A letter. Why dont they send it by mail?””It wouldnt cause so much fuss.””No, but all the same, its so stupid it makes you ashamed.””Yes,” Martin Beck agreed.He had put on his hat and coat and was about to go. Kollberg got up quickly.”Ill come with you,” he said.”Whatever for?””Oh, to stroll around a little.””In this weather?””I like rain,” Kollberg said, climbing into his dark-blue poplin coat.”Isnt it enough for me to have a cold?” Martin Beck said. Martin Beck and Kollberg were policemen. They belonged to the homicide squad. For the moment they had nothing special to do and could, with relatively clear consciences, consider themselves free.Downtown no policemen were to be seen in the streets. The old lady outside the central station waited in vain for a patrolman to come up to her, salute, and smilingly help her across the street. A person who had just smashed the glass of a showcase with a brick had no need to worry that the rising and falling wail from a patrol car would suddenly interrupt his doings.The police were busy.A week earlier the police commissioner had said in a public statement that many of the regular duties of the police would have to be neglected because they were obliged to protect the American ambassador against letters and other things from people who disliked Lyndon Johnson and the war in Vietnam.Detective Inspector Lennart Kollberg didnt like Lyndon Johnson and the war in Vietnam either, but he did like strolling about the city when it was raining.At eleven oclock in the evening it was still raining and the demonstration could be regarded as broken up.At the same time eight murders and one attempted murder were committed in Stockholm.2Rain, he thought, looking out of the window dejectedly. November darkness and rain, cold and pelting. A forerunner of the approaching winter. Soon it would start to snow.Nothing in town was very attractive just now, especially not this street with its bare trees and large, shabby apartment houses. A bleak esplanade, misdirected and wrongly planned from the outset. It led nowhere in particular and never had, it was just there, a dreary reminder of some grandiose city plan, begun long ago but never finished. There were no lighted shop windows and no people on the sidewalks. Only big, leafless trees and street lamps, whose cold white light was reflected by puddles and wet car roofs.He had trudged about so long in the rain that his hair and the legs of his pants were sopping wet, and now he felt the moisture along his shins and right down his neck to the shoulder blades, cold and trickling.He undid the two top buttons of his raincoat, stuck his right hand inside his jacket and fingered the butt of the pistol. It, too, felt cold and clammy.At the touch, an involuntary shudder passed through the man in the dark-blue poplin raincoat and he tried to think of something else. For instance of the hotel balcony at Andraitz, where he had spent his vacation five months earlier. Of the heavy, motionless heat and of the bright sunshine over the quayside and the fishing boats and of the limitless, deep-blue sky above the mountain ridge on the other side of the bay.Then he thought that it was probably raining there too at this time of year and that there was no central heating in the houses, only open fireplaces.And that he was no longer in the same street as before and would soon be forced out into the rain again.He heard someone behind him on the stairs and knew that it was the person who had got on outside Ahlens department store on Klarabergsgatan in the center of the city twelve stops before.Rain, he thought. I dont like it. In fact I hate it. I wonder when Ill be promoted. What am I doing here anyway and why arent I at home in bed with . . .And that was the last he thought.The bus was a red doubledecker with cream-colored top and gray roof. It was of the type Leyland Atlantean and built in England, but constructed for the Swedish right-hand traffic, introduced two months before. On this particular evening it was plying on route 47 in Stockholm, between Bellmansro at Djurgarden and Karlberg, and vice versa. Now it was heading northwest and approaching the terminus on Norra Stationsgatan, situated only a few yards from the city limits between Stockholm and Solna.Solna is a suburb of Stockholm and functions as an independent municipal administrative unit, even if the boundary between the two cities can only be seen as a dotted line on the map.It was big, this red bus; over 36 feet long and nearly 15 feet high. It weighed more than 15 tons. The headlights were on and it looked warm and cozy with its misty windows, as it droned along deserted Karlbergsvagen between the lines of leafless trees. Then it turned right into Norrbackagatan and the sound of the engine was fainter on the long slope down to Norra Stationsgatan. The rain beat against the roof and windows, and the wheels flung up hissing cascades of water as it glided downward, heavily and implacably.The hill ended where the street did. The bus was to turn at an angle of 30 degrees, onto Norra Stationsgatan, and then it had only some 300 yards left to the end of the line.The only person to observe the vehicle at this moment was a man who stood flattened against a house wall over 150 yards farther up Norrbackagatan. He was a burglar who was about to smash a window. He noticed the bus because he wanted it out of the way and had waited for it to pass.He saw it slow down at the corner and begin to turn left with its side lights blinking. Then it was out of sight. The rain pelted down harder than ever. The man raised his hand and smashed the pane.What he did not see was that the turn was never completed.The red doubledecker bus seemed to stop for a moment in the middle of the turn. Then it drove straight across the street, climbed the sidewalk and burrowed halfway through the wire fence separating Norra Stationsgatan from the desolate freight yard on the other side.Then it pulled up.The engine died but the headlights were still on, and so w Details ISBN0307390500 Author Jonathan Franzen Short Title LAUGHING POLICEMAN Language English ISBN-10 0307390500 ISBN-13 9780307390509 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 DEWEY FIC Birth 1935 Translator Alan Blair Imprint Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Subtitle A Martin Beck Police Mystery (4) Series Number 4 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2009-02-10 NZ Release Date 2009-02-10 US Release Date 2009-02-10 UK Release Date 2009-02-10 Pages 224 Publisher Penguin Random House LLC Series Martin Beck Police Mystery Series Publication Date 2009-02-10 Replaces 9780679742234 Audience General We’ve got this At The Nile, if you’re looking for it, we’ve got it. 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