by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140039191
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«The Abominable Man» is the mystery novel by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (185 pages, in English).
A senior police officer, Nyland, is murdered with a bayonet in his hospital bed. Inspector Martin Beck takes the case and finds that many people had reason to hate the deceased; narrowing the list of suspects leads him into a murky investigation, where the truth proves more uncomfortable than the crime itself.
«The Abominable Man» is the seventh novel in the Martin Beck series. The translation from Swedish to English is by Thomas Teal.
For readers of Scandinavian crime fiction and police stories with a social backdrop, within the Martin Beck series.
Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for her novels about the police detective Martin Beck. She wrote these novels in collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö.
