Roseanna
Critique • Quotes
First editionFirst publication
1965
Literary form
Novel
Genres
Crime, mystery
Writing language
Swedish
Authors' country
Sweden
Length
Approx. 74,000 words
Notable lines
They found the corpse on the eighth of July just after three o'clock in the afternoon. It was fairly well intact and couldn't have been lying in the water very long.
— First lines, trans. Lois Roth
"Remember that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm. You don't allow yourself to lose your composure and you act only professionally on a case, whatever it is. Words like repulsive, horrible, and bestial belong in the newspapers, not in your thinking. A murderer is a regular human being, only more unfortunate and maladjusted."
Here comes Martin Beck and it's snowing on his hat. He walks with a song; he walks with a sway! Hello friends and brothers; it squeaks underfoot. It is a winter night. Hello to you all; just give a call and we'll go home to southern Stockholm! By subway. To my part of town.
He was on the way home.
— Last lines
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