Roseanna
Subtitle: a Martin Beck mystery
By: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ; translated from the Swedish by Lois Roth.
Contributors: Wahlöö, Per, 1926-1975.
Edition: 2nd Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780307390462
Subjects: Beck, Martin (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Police -- Sweden -- Stockholm -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction; Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Roseanna.
Description: "The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries ... finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler. On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues, Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a muderer with a distinctive -- indeed, terrifying -- sense of propriety"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "With a new introduction by Henning Mankell"--P. [1] of cover.

"The first Martin Beck mystery"--P. [1] of cover.

"Vintage Crime/Black Lizard."