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When a powerful industrialist is shot during an after-dinner speech, the repercussions are widespread. As Chief Inspector Martin Beck begins a systemic search for the friends, enemies, and associates who may have wanted him dead, he finds a web so despicable that it's hard to imagine who wouldn't want Palmgren dead.

The bloody murder of a police captain in his hospital room exposes an unsavory history of police brutality. As Beck and his colleagues hunt the demented rifleman, they also unearth evidence of police corruption. Thats when the outraged Beck is driven toward a series of drastic steps that end in a shocking disaster.

On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The crime seems random, but Superintendent Martin Beck suspects otherwise, for the killer has managed to target one of Becks best detectives, and he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason.

In one part of town, a bank is robbed. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Martin Beck believes otherwise. Haunted by the recent breakup of his marriage, Beck throws himself into the case.

An apartment under police surveillance explodes, killing at least three people. Martin Beck and his men don't suspect arson or murder until they discover a curious link between the explosion and a suicide committed that same day. The dead man left a note consisting of just two words: Martin Beck.

Someone is killing young girls after having his way with them in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm. 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. But then he remembers someone-or something-he overheard.

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Nine bus riders have been gunned down in an apparently motiveless crime. But the killer has managed to target one of Becks best detectivesand he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason.

Nine bus riders have been gunned down in an apparently motiveless crime. But the killer has managed to target one of Becks best detectivesand he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason.

In this classic police procedural, the ever-dyspeptic Martin Beck has nothing to be amused about, even though it's Christmastime. ke Stenstrom, a young detective in Beck's squad, has just been killed in an unprecedented mass murder aboard a Stockholm city bus. Was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time, or did he push a murderer too far in his efforts to make a name for himself on the force?

Inspector Beck is packed off to Budapest, where a journalist has vanished without a trace. As he trolls about in the Eastern Europe underworld, he pursues a case whose international boundaries grow with every new clue.

In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Martin Beck believes otherwise.

In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Martin Beck believes otherwise.

An apartment under police surveillance explodes, killing at least three people. Martin Beck doesn't suspect arson or murder until he discovers a suicide note from the same day, consisting of just two words: Martin Beck.

An apartment under police surveillance explodes, killing at least three people. Martin Beck doesn't suspect arson or murder until he discovers a suicide note from the same day, consisting of just two words: Martin Beck.

The Martin Beck mysteries dont just read well, they reread even betterIngenious.New York Times Book Review