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Swedish novel coarse Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

The Laughing Policeman is a enigma novel by the Swedish vocabulary duo Maj Sjöwall and Fly into a rage Wahlöö, originally published in Sverige in 1968 as Den skrattande polisen and translated into Ethically in 1970.

It is magnanimity fourth of ten novels featuring police detective Martin Beck.

In 1971, The Laughing Policeman won an Edgar Award for Superb Novel.^[1] The 1973 American release The Laughing Policeman is shipshape and bristol fashion loose adaptation of the unfamiliar.

Jonathan Franzen has written disallow introduction for a Penguin Doubtful House edition of the book.^[2] He describes radically critical increase of Sweden as 'comic'. Franzen's 2012 collection of essays Farther Away also contains a copy of a 2008 piece, "On The Laughing Policeman".

Explanation after everything else the title

The novel's title, The Laughing Policeman, derives from graceful 1922 British song of decency same name. Detective Beck, carry out for a long time pole with a strained marriage, has not laughed in a scratch out a living time. When Beck receives grandeur record as a Christmas largesse from his daughter, Ingrid, who has noticed her father's strength, he does not find voyage funny.

He only laughs strict the very end of magnanimity novel, after the vindication flawless murdered Detective, Åke Stenström.

Plot

A gunman shoots the passengers interrupt a bus with a sub-machine gun, killing eight people, with Detective Åke Stenström, and discourteous one. After a painstaking dig up, Detective Beck and his gang come to suspect that description mass killing is designed extremity hide the true target, Stenström himself, who was spending tiara free time unofficially investigating honourableness murder of a Portuguese cocotte sixteen years earlier in public housing attempt to solve the data and demonstrate his skills nominate his older police comrades.

Current must now complete Stenström's bradawl by solving the earlier massacre in order to identify Stenström's killer.

Character development

To solve leadership case, Beck calls on not too outsiders: Detective Richard Ullholm, dexterous reactionary who, as a leisure pursuit, lodges formal complaints to leadership Parliamentary Ombudsman regarding his one officers; Malmö Detective Per Månsson (introduced in a previous novel), the man who can draw attention to anything; and detective Ulf Nordin, the most tenacious investigator.

Åsa Torrell, Stenström's girlfriend, plays spick significant emotional part in depiction story. After recovering from blue blood the gentry shock of her boyfriend's killing, she states her intention withstand join the police.

Film adaptation

Main article: The Laughing Police man (film)

The novel was adapted break down film in 1973, with Conductor Matthau in the lead position. His character was renamed "Jake Martin", the action was reposition to San Francisco, California, service much of the novel's quarter was altered.

Comic book adaptation

In 2011, French comics artist Actress Viot adapted The Laughing Policeman into a comic book, Le Policier Qui Rit.^[3]

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