Per Wahlöö

Per Wahlöö was a Swedish author best known for the Martin Beck police novels he wrote with his partner Maj Sjöwall, a series of ten published between 1965 and 1975. He began as a crime reporter in 1946, later made long trips around the world, and then returned to journalism in Sweden. The fourth Beck novel, The Laughing Policeman, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1971. He also wrote novels on his own, and he died in 1975.