num_pages: 224
description: The fourth in the Martin Beck series. One blustery November evening someone guns down eight occupants of a Stockholm bus - one of whom was a colleague of Martin Beck's. Eight people together purely by coincidence - perhaps. But, above all, why was that policeman - a solitary and ambitious man - on that bus?
language: English
title: The Laughing Policeman
titlecomplete: The Laughing Policeman
characters: Martin Beck, Lennart Kollberg
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Sweden, Scandinavian Literature, Thriller, Nordic Noir, Swedish Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective
ratings_count: 9743
places: Stockholm
series: Martin Beck 
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Orion Pub Co