Helpful Score: 1
With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, The Laughing Policeman is a classic of the police procedural and the axiom "police work is 90% sweat and 10% luck; a must reading for anyone who claims to be a student of the best detective fiction.
