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‘Authentic seeming, grim, but fascinating.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘A well-told, documentary-type tale of how the Stockholm police slog away...There is something of Ed McBain's “87th Precinct” novels about it, but with less of a factory finish.’ Spectator
‘The decalogue about the Swedish Chief Inspector Martin Beck created by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo during the 1960s and 1970s are indeed classic police fiction. They changed the genre. Whoever is writing crime fiction after these novels is inspired by them in one way or another.’ Henning Mankell
‘Their mysteries don’t just read well; they reread even better...The plots hold, because they’re ingenious but never inhuman.’ New York Times
Per Wahlöö was born in Göteborg, as the son of Waldemar and Karin (Svensson) Wahlöö. After graduating from the University of Lund in 1946, he worked as a journalist, covering criminal and social issues for a number of newspapers and magazines. In the 1950s Wahlöö was engaged in radical political causes, activities that resulted in his deportation from Franco's Spain in 1957. After returning to Sweden, he wrote a number of television and radio plays, and was managing editor of several magazines, before becoming a full-time writer. Maj Sjowall is also a poet. She lives in Sweden.
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Book Description Original Red Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. 1969. [vi], 180pp. The second Martin Beck book. "A quietly relentless thriller, The Man on the Balcony juxtaposes the most inhuman of crimes with the humanity of the men who must solve it--their perseverance, frustration, and horror--resulting in a police procedural that is as moving and credible as it is enthralling." Some minor shelf wear to dust-jacket. Top corner of jacket's front cover flap and lower corner of rear cover flap are clipped. Crease down the spine of the jacket. Both book and jacket are otherwise in very good condition. All contents are tight and clean. There are no inscriptions. Seller Inventory # LitSjowall06
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo (First UK Edition) File Copy Bumping to three corners, bright gilt lettering, bright unmarked endpapers and pages. Some dust rubbing to the jacket edges. Not price-clipped. "File Copy" stamped and "69" penned to back cover. Brodart cover. Publisher's File Copy. First UK Edition. Originally published in Sweden 1967. The second Martin Beck detective novel. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX8147-1