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Per Fredrik Wahlöö (5 August 1926 – 22 June 1975) – in English translations often identified as Peter Wahloo – was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his partner Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975.
Jan 22, 2021 · Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics. In 1965, a pair of radical bohemian journalists invented Scandinavian Noir and reimagined what crime fiction could do. “One of the most authentic, gripping, and profound collection of police procedurals ever accomplished.”.
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Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö were Swedish journalists and innovative writers of detective fiction. As a team, Per Wahlöö and his wife, Maj Sjöwall (married in 1962), wrote a series of detective stories in which Martin Beck and his colleagues at the Central Bureau of Investigation in Stockholm were.
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Per Fredrik Wahlöö (5 August 1926 - 22 June 1975) was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his partner Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975.
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Per Wahlöö has 71 books on Goodreads with 129088 ratings. Per Wahlöö’s most popular book is Roseanna (Martin Beck, #1).
The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass-murderer.
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Per Wahloo is a Swedish author known for his crime fiction novels. Born in 1926 in Kungsbacka Municipality in Halland, he is sometimes known as Peter Wahloo in English. He debuted as a novelist with his first novel, The Lorry, being published in 1962.
