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[miriamvowen]

REVIEW Beck (S8 E4/4) — The Killing Times

REVIEW Beck (S8 E4/4) — The Killing Times

With Beck facing up to his mortality, and questions being raised about his conduct of an old case, will this be the last we see of Stockholm’s gloomiest detective?  As this brief season comes to an end, we’re given even more direct suggestions that Martin Beck might not be long for this world – in […]REVIEW Beck (S8 E4/4) — The Killing Times

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[technophilosopher]

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[thethomasblack]

Reading: Sjowall and Wahloo

Once in a while you come across anothe writer or reader who loves the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo and it’s always a nice moment to find you’re not alone.

Sjowall and Wahloo (apols for the lack of of umlauts, btw, thanks tumblr) wrote a series of crime books in the 1960s starring detective Martin Beck. Beck as a character was one of the first ordinary police heroes. Not for him the uber intelligence of a Sherlock Holmes or a Hercules Poirot, but instead the sheer slog of investigative police work. Which may make the books sound a little dull but they are anything but: tight, sparse, beautifully structured and rich with reality.

As well as writing one of the first police proecdural series, Sjowall and Wahloo were also instrumental in adding a political layer to crime writing — staunchly left wing, part of the aim of the books was to capture Swedish society as they saw it. This political slant has long been a feature of many a Scandinavian crime writer since, everyone from Henning Mankell to Stieg Larsson.

And of course, Sjowall and Wahloo famous wrote the books together: a husband and wife team who got the typewriters out once the children had gone to bed. Innovate writers, then, many times over.

@thethomasblack