The cop killer

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The detective novel The Policeman Murderer (Swedish original title: Polismördaren) by the author couple Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is the ninth novel of the decalogy novel about a crime . It was first published in Sweden in 1974, in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 and in the GDR in 1985.

action

A woman, Sigbrit Mård, is missing in the southern Schonese village of Anderslöv. Since their neighbor, the sex murderer Folke Bengtsson (who was caught by the police officer Martin Beck and his colleagues in Die Tote im Götakanal , the first book in the series, and has served his sentence), is considered the main suspect, Beck and Kollberg are ordered to Anderslöv. Åke Gunnarsson, who now calls himself Boman and who had been convicted of the manslaughter of Alf Matsson by Beck and Kollberg in The Man Who Dissolved into Air , Volume 2 of the series, also belongs to the rather large line-up of journalists that appears .

Bengtsson is arrested "from above" on instructions - and the press quickly turns to a new sensation: after a shootout between a police patrol and two young thieves, one of the two escapes. The police and the press are now looking for the "police murderer", even though he did not kill any police officer (one of the youths was killed in the shooting after seriously injuring two police officers, a third police officer died a short time later of a wasp sting and thus "of the injuries sustained in connection with the exchange of fire ”).

Martin Beck ascertains that Sigbrit Mård, whose body has since been found, had an unknown lover - and the fugitive youngster Ronnie Kaspersson steals his car, of all things, whereby Kaj Evert Sundström can be proven the murder. After the hunt down Kaspersson, Beck's colleague and friend Lennart Kollberg quits the job.

filming

The book was filmed in a Swedish-German production in 1994; The director was Peter Keglevic .