The Locked Room: A Martin Beck Police Mystery
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Per Wahlöö, Maj Sjowall
Narrated By: Tom Weiner
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: October 2009
Duration: 8 hours 31 minutes
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.
Translated by Paul Britten Austin
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