The Locked Room: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (8)-Fast Shipping

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The stunning eighth installment in the Martin Beck mystery series by the renowned Swedish crime writing duo is a masterful take on a classic locked room mystery. With an introduction by Michael Connelly: “One of the most authentic, gripping, and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished.”

A young blondein sunglasses robs a bank and kills a hapless citizen. Across town, a corpse witha bullet shot through its heart is found in a locked room–with no gun at the crimes seem disparate, but to Martin Beck they are two pieces of the same puzzle,and solving it becomes the one way he can escape the pains of his failed marriageand the lingering effects of a near-fatal bullet wound. Exploring the ramificationsof egotism and intellect, luck and accident, this tour de force of detection bearsthe unmistakable substance and gravity of real life.