by Per Wahlöö, Maj Sjöwall · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782743618889
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«L'homme au balcon» is the crime novel by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published by Rivages in paperback format (277 pages, in French).
In a Stockholm suffocated by heat, a neighbour calls the police about a man smoking on his balcony, while Martin Beck pursues an attacker and killer of girls with no solid leads; the social reaction becomes unsettling and his personal life falls apart.
Originally published in Swedish as «Mannen på balkongen», it belongs to the ten-novel series featuring Inspector Martin Beck; this French edition came out in 2008.
For readers of crime fiction who value classic detective series and Nordic critical realism.
Per Fredrik Wahlöö, often identified in English translations as Peter Wahloo – was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for 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. The fourth of the Beck novels, Den skrattande polisen, was published in 1968; a translation of this novel, The Laughing Policeman, won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America in 1971. Wahlöö and Sjöwall also wrote novels separately.
