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  • The Locked Room

  • A Martin Beck Police Mystery
  • Written by: Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
  • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Locked Room

Written by: Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
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Publisher's Summary

A young blonde in sunglasses robs a bank and kills a hapless citizen. Across town, a corpse with a bullet shot through its heart is found in a locked room - with no gun at the scene. 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 marriage and the lingering effects of a near-fatal bullet wound.

Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life.

©1972 Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö; Translation copyright © 1973 by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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What the critics say

"Admirers of the series - and who is not an admirer? - will find the usual deftness, the fine shades of characters." (The New York Times)
"The Swedish husband and wife team who have yet to write a dull book - and have the prizes to prove it - again provide supercop Martin Beck with an impossible murder to solve.... Don't miss any of it." (Chicago Tribune)

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