The Man on the Balcony (Martin Beck, Book 2) - Softcover
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"[Beck] had only seen the body for a few moments, and at a distance, and he didn't want to see it again if he could help it. This he knew to be an impossibility. The mental image of the child in the blue skirt and striped T-shirt was etched into his mind and would always remain there, together with all the others he could never get rid of.
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The Man on the Balcony
Someone is killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm -- killing them after having his way. The people of Stockholm are tense and fearful. Police Superintendent Martin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won't say much and a three-year-old boy who can't say much. The dedicated work of the police force seems to be leading nowhere, and with each passing day, the likelihood of another murder grows. But then Beck remembers someone -- or something -- he overheard.
A quietly relentless thriller, The Man on the balances 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.
Someone is killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm -- killing them after having his way. The people of Stockholm are tense and fearful. Police Superintendent Martin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won't say much and a three-year-old boy who can't say much. The dedicated work of the police force seems to be leading nowhere, and with each passing day, the likelihood of another murder grows. But then Beck remembers someone -- or something -- he overheard.
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.
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.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0394717775
- ISBN 13 9780394717777
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages179
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Book Description paperback. New York. 1976. March 1976. Vintage Books. 1st Vintage Paperback Edition. 1967 Circled on Copyright Page, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0394717775. Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair. 180 pages. paperback. V-777. keywords: Mystery Sweden Translated Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - What gave every indication of being a warm and peaceful Swedish summer suddenly develops into a nightmare for the members of the Stockholm Homicide Squad when the city becomes the scene of a rash of brutal muggings and child sex-murders. Martin Beck, now a superintendent, begins a relent' less, meticulous investigation that follows to the end the slightest clues and finally leads to the criminal. Hauntingly effective story-telling. The instinctive emotional response of both the policemen and the city to the child killer is particularly well developed.' - New York Times Book Review. The Man on the Balcony is a 'crime novel' in subject, but in its maturity and wisdom it is simply a novel, and an extraordinary one.' - National Observer. inventory #45596 1967 Circled on Copyright Page, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. Seller Inventory # z45596
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Some reading and cover creases, some shelf wear with small split to top of slightly cracked spine, inside covers and endpapers toned, ink name to front endpaper. ; Translated from the original Swedish by Alan Blair. ; The Martin Beck Series; Vol. 2; 192 pages; Detective Superintendent Martin Beck and his colleagues investigate a series of brutal muggings and child sex-murders that are happening in Stockholm parks. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 25615
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