Murder on the Thirty-first Floor
Author(s): Per Wahloo
In an unnamed country, in an unnamed year sometime in the future, Chief Inspector Jensen of the Sixteenth Division is called in after the publishers controlling the entire country's newspapers and magazines receive a threat to blow up their building, in retaliation for a murder they are accused of committing. The building is evacuated, but the bomb fails to explode and Jensen is given seven days in which to track down the letter writer. Jensen has never had a case he could not solve before, but as his investigation into the identity of the letter writer begins it soon becomes clear that the directors of the publishers have their own secrets, not least the identity of the 'Special Department' on the thirty first floor; the only department not permitted to be evacuated after the bomb threat.
General Information
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.162
- : 14 December 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 02 April 2012
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Per Wahloo
- : Paperback
- : 839.7372
- : 224
More About The Product
A chilling dystopian classic crime story from the grandfather of Scandinavian crime fiction
Born in 1926, Per Wahloo was a Swedish writer and journalist who, alongside his own novels, collaborated with his wife, Maj Sjowall, on the bestselling Martin Beck crime series which are credited as inspiring writers as varied as Agatha Christie, Henning Mankell and Jonathan Franzen. In 1971 the fourth novel in the series, The Laughing Policeman, won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Per Wahloo died in 1975. Sarah Death has translated the work of many Swedish authors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, including Alexander Ahndoril, Steve Sem-Sandberg and Carl-Johan Vallgren, and Norwegian Linn Ullman (A Blessed Child was named Translated Novel of the Year by the Independent). She has twice won the triennial George Bernard Shaw Prize, for Kerstin Ekman's The Angel House, and Ellen Mattson's Snow. In 2008 she was awarded the Swedish Academy's Translation Prize.
