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On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five... read more

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  • Inspector Beck: The main investigator trying to determine who was the victim of a puzzling murder. Inspector Martin Beck cannot get the case of the murder of the mysterious woman known as Roseanna out of his mind. He persists until the murderer is identified but there is a cost to his personal life.
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They found the corpse on the eighth of July just after three o'clock in the afternoon.

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This is book 1 of 10 in Martin Beck. (standard series)

Followed by The Man Who Went Up in Smoke.

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  1. Maj Sjöwall (Author)
  2. Per Wahlöö (Author)

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Original Language: Swedish
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Country: Sweden
Publication Date: 1965
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Page Count: 212

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