Publication Order of Martin Beck Books

10 Books By Maj Sjowall

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10 Books

1

Roseanna
1965

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2

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1966

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3

The Man on the Balcony
1967

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4

The Laughing Policeman / Investigation of Murder
1968

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5

The Fire Engine that Disappeared
1969

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6

Murder at the Savoy
2022

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7

The Abominable Man
1971

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8

The Locked Room
2015

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9

Cop Killer
1974

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10

The Terrorists
1975

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Martin Beck Martin Beck is the lead character in a series of Scandinavian crime fiction novels by Swedish novelists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo . Martin Beck is a Stockholm police detective. Martin is described as a tall smoker and has a weak immune system. He has two teenage sons. Al of the novels have been adapted to film and/or television in various languages, most notably by Walter Matthau in the 1973 film The Laughing Policeman. The series is also known as The Story of a Crime.