Wahlöö, Per | Wahlöö, Per 1927–1975
Wahlöö, Per 1927–1975
Wahlöö was a Swedish journalist and novelist and his wife Maj Sjöwall is a Swedish journalist and poet. Together they created crime novels with a succinct style much like Wahlöö's earlier work. Their clever, intricate mysteries present, through their protagonist, detective Martin Beck, "personal, acrid critiques of Sweden's bourgeois welfare state." (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 61-64.)
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö burst upon the American scene with Roseanna, the first of their imaginative police procedural novels starring that deceptive detective ordinaire, Martin Beck…. [They] have become the undisputed stars of Scandinavian mystery and, indeed, rank internationally among the peers of the genre. (p. 56)
O. L. Bailey, in Saturday Review (copyright © 1972 by Saturday Review, Inc.; reprinted with permission), August 5, 1972.
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