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Flight to the scaffold

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Flight to the scaffold
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Mai Cheval and Per Valleau are Swedish journalists, authors of the famous series of novels (1965-1975) about police commissioner Martin Beck, which won prestigious literary awards both in Europe and in America. Under the pen of the couple Cheval and Vallee detective genre "ceases to be a game of the imagination and entertaining reading, detached from reality" ("Times"). Along with the puzzle, the solution to which the police under Martin Beck must find, in each novel there is a second plan: the Sweden of the time, with its problems and contradictions, with recognizable social types, with the "parade" places and the evil corners of the Swedish capital. "Flight to the Scaffold" (1968) was ranked second in 1995 in the category of "novels that realistically portray police work," from the Detective Writers of America's "100 Best Crime Novels" list. On November 13, 1967, in Stockholm, an unknown man shot all the passengers of a city bus and its driver with an automatic pistol, and then fled. Among those killed was Åke Stenström, a member of Beck's investigative team. In his spare time he was investigating an old case, deposited in the archives sixteen years ago, and now his colleagues will have to solve two crimes at once...
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