The first Martin Beck novel was written by a Swedish communist husband and wife team in the 1960's. Well dramatised on Radio 4 recently, which is what led me to try it.
A bit mono-thematic. Woman murdered on a cruise boat in Sweden is found naked and dead in the sea, the perpetrator must have been on board. So who done it?
Perp eventually identified but needs to be trapped by using a police officer as bait. A bit cliched in 2012, (but probably very original and quite risqué 50 years ago), but better than a lot of the cut-price crime stuff I have been reading recently.
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