num_pages: 224
description: With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, The Laughing Policeman is a classic of the police procedural and "must reading for anyone who claims to be [a student] of the best detective fiction" (Saturday Review).
language: English
title: The Laughing Policeman
titlecomplete: The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
characters: Martin Beck, Lennart Kollberg
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Nordic Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Sweden, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 9752
places: Stockholm
series: Martin Beck 
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Vintage