The Fire Engine That Disappeared

Author : Maj Sjowall
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307744299
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fire Engine that Disappeared written by Maj Sjowall and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career.The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe because somehow a regulation fire-truck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak? And what if, anything, did the explosion have to do with the peculiar death earlier that day of a 46-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: "Martin Beck"?

Author : Maj Sjöwall
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780394723402
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fire Engine that Disappeared written by Maj Sjöwall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1977 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioner Martin Beck's associates begin a search for a ladder truck whose disappearance resulted in the death of eleven people

Author : Maj Sjöwall
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fire Engine that Disappeared written by Maj Sjöwall and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Beck must solve a murder involving an accidental explosion - or was it?

Author : Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313040885
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gumshoes written by Mitzi M. Brunsdale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. This dictionary of fictional detectives helps readers learn about the series in which their favorite detectives are featured. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, which provide information about the works in which the detective appears, the locales in which the detective operates, the detective's investigative methods, and other important information. Helpful bibliographical citations direct the reader to other interesting works. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography; various appendices; and an extensive index. The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many of the most popular mystery books appear in series, and these series feature carefully developed detectives.

Author : Maj Sjowall
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307496589
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Locked Room written by Maj Sjowall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman robs a bank. A corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within--no firearm in sight. To the eerily intuitive Inspector Martin Beck, these seemingly disparate cases are facets of the same puzzle, and solving it is of vital importance. Only by finding our what happened in the locked room can Beck--haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and the demise of a soulless marriage--escape from an airtight prison of his own. From its classic premise, The Locked Room accelerates into an engrossing novel of the mind. Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, and set against the backdrop of the inspired deductions and monstrous errors of Martin Beck and the Stockholm Homicide Squad, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Akio Takahashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819932726
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regime Changes and Socio-economic History of Rural Myanmar, 1986-2019 written by Akio Takahashi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to depict the transformation and steadiness of Myanmar’s rural socio-economy from within the villages based on my own detailed research, in relation with the regime changes from Burmese Way to Socialism to military junta and to democratization from 1986 to 2019. The main subject of the transformation is “de-agrarianisation” including land use and holdings, household incomes, non-, migrations, power structure, village landscape, etc. And the principal theme of the steadiness is the “absence of village collective” which is the core of rural Myanmar, in contrast to village communities like Japan. This is the reason why Myanmar villagers have lived surprisingly bright, free and independent despite the oppressive political economy under the socialism and the military junta, and have not collectively participated in so-called community development. This book is the result of research conducted by visiting more than 200 villages and interviewing more than 10,000 people by myself in Myanmar language.

Author : Simon Goodenough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780748100637
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fire Engine written by Simon Goodenough and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Evald Flisar
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 072061919X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Loves, One Death written by Evald Flisar and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small family moves to the Slovenian countryside to restore a large, dilapidated farmhouse. Then the relatives arrive—Cousin Vladimir, a former partisan writing his memoirs, Uncle Vinko, an accountant who would like to raise the largest head of cabbage on record, Aunt Mara, and her illegitimate daughter Elisabeth, bent on losing her virginity. And finally Uncle Schweik, the accidental hero who everyone assumed was dead. Flisar handles the absurd events that follow like no other writer, making the smallest incidents rich in meaning.

Author : Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472522133
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scandinavian Crime Fiction written by Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter Høeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.

Author : Andrew Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191025313
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unwilling Executioner written by Andrew Pepper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. This study offers a dramatic new interpretation of the genre's emergence and evolution over a three hundred year period and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. From its roots in the tales of criminality circulated widely in Paris and London in the early eighteenth century, this book examines the extraordinary richness, diversity and complexity of the genre's subsequent thematizations of crime and policing—moving from France and Britain and from continental Europe and the United States to other parts of the globe. In doing so it offers new ways of reading established crime novelists like Gaboriau, Doyle, Hammett, and Simenon, beyond their national contexts and an impulse to characterize their work as either straightforwardly 'radical' or 'conservative'. It also argues for the centrality of writers like Defoe, Gay, Godwin, Vidocq, Morrison, and more recently Manchette, Himes, and Sjöwall and Wahlöö to a project where crime and policing are rooted, and shown to be rooted, in the social and economic conditions of their time. These are all deeply political writers even if their novels exhibit no interest in directly promoting political causes or parties. The result is an agile, layered, and far-reaching account of the crime story's ambivalent relationship to the justice system and its move to complicate our understanding of what crime is and how society is policed and for whose benefit.