The Edgar Awards Revisited: The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (Best Novel; 1971)
By Abby Endler
May 3, 2019For a Scandinavian crime fiction devotee like yours truly, no author’s legacy looms larger than that of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, whose Martin Beck books are largely considered the launching point for the Nordic Noir sub-genre. Writing in the 1960s and 1970s, husband and wife duo Sjöwall and Wahlöö broke new ground in the…