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- From: joan@med.unc.edu (Joan Shields)
- Subject: Sjowall & Wahloo and other series
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- Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:12:08 GMT
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- I recently started rereading the Martin Beck books by
- Maj Sjowall and Per Whaloo. They are ten books, a series of police
- procedurals set in Sweden. Not only are they good mysteries (in the
- police procedural sub-genre of mysteries) they also chart the life of
- Martin beck as he goes through some major life changes. There are two
- threads I'd like to propose: the first is does anyone know of other books
- that do this (ie: Janwillem Van der Wetering's police procedurals set in
- Amsterdam and perhaps Nicholas Freeling's books as well) and do it
- particularly well (I realize that Sayer's did it but I would like to avoid
- the obvious ones and look for series that aren't as well known) and how
- this adds or subtracts from the books as a whole.
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- The second thread would be a discussion of the Sjowall/Whaloo books
- themselves.
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- Anyone interested?
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- Wet fishes and stolen kisses,
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- Joan
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