This is the fourth Martin Beck novel and I didn’t like it as much as almost any of the others I’ve read, but it’s still good. It begins with a terrible incident on a bus in which a group of riders is murdered by a gunman with a machine gun. In a lot of ways it previews the kinds of horrific violence we understand daily in the US and the book is pretty angry that a mass killing has made its way to the shores […]
His name was apparently Charles Penrose and the record was called The Adventures of the Laughing Policeman.
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Slowall and Per Wahloo