Title:
The abominable man
Author:
Edition:
Second Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition.
Publication Date:
2009
1972
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2009.
©1972
Physical Description:
x, 215 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780307390905
Abstract:
The striking seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series. The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strongarm police work and sheer brutality. Martin Beck and his colleagues feverishly comb Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman, who has plans for even more chaos. As the tension builds and a feeling of imminent danger grips Bec, his investigation unearths evidence of police corruption."
General Note:
"This translation originally published in a slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1972 and subsequently published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1980"--Title page verso.
Translation of: Vedervärdige mannen från Säffle.
Personal Subject:
Geographic Term:
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Translated from the Swedish.
