Description

• Stated First American Printing [Pantheon Books, New York, 1972]; [vi], 215, [3 blank] pages; purple cloth, block design to front, gold titling to spine, near-fine; in the excellent unclipped [$4.95] dustjacket, rubbed on edges, bumped at corners
• Jacket design by James Barkley
• Translated by Thomas Teal
• The original Scandi Noir series blending gripping police procedural, bleak cold settings & social realism. This is the seventh title in the series featuring Swedish homicide detective Martin Beck that ran for 10 books in total.