The Abominable Man

The Abominable Man

Infobox Book
name = The Abominable Man
title_orig = Den vedervärdige mannen från Säffle
translator =


image_caption =
author = Sjöwall and Wahlöö
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = Sweden
language = Swedish
series = "Martin Beck" series
subject =
genre =
publisher = Norstedts Förlag
release_date = 1971
english_release_date =
media_type =
pages = 194 pp
isbn = ISBN 91-1-715611-4
oclc = 13383505
preceded_by = Murder at the Savoy
followed_by = The Locked Room

"The Abominable Man" ("Den vedervärdige mannen från Säffle") is a Swedish crime novel by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö from 1971 in the series revolving around police detective Martin Beck. One of Donald Knuth's favourite novels, "one of Sjöwall and Wahlöö's brilliantly Swedish detective novels". [ [http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/retd.html Knuth: Retirement ] ]

Plot summary

A senior policeman known for brutality is violently knifed while in his hospital bed. Within a 24 hour period, Martin Beck searches through the policeman's many enemies for the killer, for whom the murder was only a precursor to a Charles Whitman-style attack on Stockholm.

Characters and their development

Martin Beck and his now grown-up daughter Ingrid develop their friendship; they eat out together.

Film

The book was made into a film in 1976, by director Bo Widerberg, renamed "The Man on the Roof" ("Mannen på taket").

References


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