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A young blonde in sunglasses robs a bank and kills a hapless citizen. Across town, a corpse with a bullet shot through its heart is found in a locked room - with no gun at the scene. The crimes seem disparate, but to Martin Beck they are two pieces of the same puzzle, and solving it becomes the one way he can escape the pains of his failed marriage and the lingering effects of a near-fatal bullet wound.

His holiday with his family has just begun, but a phone call sends Martin Beck packing off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace. With the aid of the coolly efficient local police, who do business while soaking at the public baths, Beck must troll about in the Eastern Europe underworld for a man nobody knows - while he is at the risk of vanishing along with his quarry.

Now head of the National Murder Squad, Martin Beck is called in to a sleepy Swedish town to investigate a woman's disappearance. When she is found already murdered, her body dredged from the bottom of a lake, suspicions swirl around arrest Folke Bengtsson, the killer Beck caught in the first novel of the series for committing a similar murder, and who has since been released. But Beck is beginning to doubt that Bengtsson is guilty of any murder at all.

When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful Swedish industrialist, is shot during his after-dinner speech in the luxurious Hotel Savoy, it sends a shiver down the spine of the international money markets and puts the tiny town of Malmö on edge. No one can identify the gunman when Martin Beck takes over the scene and finds a web so despicable that it's hard to imagine who wouldn't want Palmgren dead.

The Terrorists is the last Martin Beck mystery, finished just a few weeks before Per Wahlöö’s death. The book is, in effect, a marvelous summing up of the series. The story centers on the visit of an American senator to Stockholm. Martin Beck tries to protect him from an international gang of terrorists, while they decide that Beck too should be removed from the scene.

The Martin Beck books are widely acknowledged as some of the most influential detective novels ever written. Written by Swedish husband and wife team Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö between 1965 and 1975, the 10-book series set a gold standard for all subsequent Scandinavian crime fiction. Long before Kurt Wallander or Harry Hole, Beck was the original flawed policeman, working with a motley collection of colleagues to uncover the cruelty and injustice lurking beneath the surface of Sweden's liberal society.

On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs him a madman. But Superintendent Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad suspects otherwise. This apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Beck's best detectives - and he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason.

Someone is killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm - killing them after having his way. The people of Stockholm are tense and fearful. Police Superintendent Martin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won't say much and a three-year-old boy who can't say much.

The cunning incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's 11 occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe because, for reasons nobody could satisfactorily explain, a regulation fire truck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak?

The bloody murder of a police captain in his hospital room exposes the particularly unsavory history of a man who spent 40 years practicing a horrible blend of strong-arm police work and shear brutality. Nonetheless, Martin Beck and his colleagues scour Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman. As the tension builds and a feeling of impending danger grips Beck, his investigation unearths evidence of police corruption.

Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel, is about a struggling young writer. It is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work. Personifying London’s own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden’s impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created.

On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's Lake Vättern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of 85 people. As Beck narrows down the list of likely suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for the casual sexual encounter.

Eindrucksvoller kann eine Bibellesung nicht sein: Rufus Beck hat die komplette Bibel eingelesen! Die Lesung umfasst das Alte und das Neue Testament sowie die sogenannten Apokryphen (Spätschriften) in der revidierten Lutherübersetzung 2017. Mit einer Gesamtspielzeit von 88 Stunden rezitiert, flüstert, ruft Rufus Beck die Worte der Bibel dem Zuhörer entgegen und schlüpft auf diese Weise meisterhaft und unnachahmlich in die Rolle der Verfasser der biblischen Bücher, wird zur Stimme und zum Medium der Evangelisten, der Apostel, von Moses, Abraham, Gott und Jesus selbst.

Dee has always been good at wearing masks. Not letting anyone see the real her. She's content being the happy-go-lucky best friend. The strong willed boss. The independent woman who doesn't need a man. She's terrified that all it will take is one person to make all her carefully constructed walls crumble into fine dust. The second Beck sees Dee, he knows that she will be his. He sees past the gorgeous smiles and heart-stopping laughter.

Telefonen ringde. Gunvald Larsson ryckte till sig luren. - Ja. Larsson. - Sambandscentralen här. En radiopatrull i Solna har hittat en hel buss full med döda på Norra Stationsgatan. Ett massmord har skett på linje 47 och Martin Beck och hans kollegor ställs inför ett svårlöst brott utan vittnen. Bland offren finns en ung kriminalassistent med draget tjänstevapen. Var det bara en slump att han befann sig på bussen? Maj Sjöwall och Per Wahlöös boksvit Roman om ett brott har blivit internationella klassiker och stilbildande inom sin genre.

En polis hade blivit brutalt nedhuggen med en bajonett. Martin Beck utgick ganska snart ifrån att det rörde sig om hämnd, begången av en sinnessjuk. Senare tvingades han själv plötsligt ta ställning till frågan om han var beredd att riskera livet för sitt arbete. Maj Sjöwall (f.1935) och Per Wahlöö (1926-1975) är författarparet som tillsammans skrev de älskade och kritikerrosade böckerna om kommissarie Martin Beck.

Die Abenteuer von Tom Sawyer i ist auch heute noch ein aktueller Klassiker der Jugendliteratur. Es ist mehr als eine typische Lausbubengeschichte. Neben dem Waisenbub Tom Sawyer spielen die Tante Polly, der Halbbruder Sid, die Cousine Mary, der Sklave Jim und vor allem Huckleberry Finn die Hauptrollen in diesem spannenden und turbulenten Abenteuerroman, der auch die Erwachsenen begeistert.

In keinem anderen biblischen Buch entfaltet sich Luthers Übersetzerkunst so meisterhaft wie in den Psalmen. Hier wird die Poesie des hebräischen Originals zu deutscher Dichtung. Luther hat den Psalter besonders geschätzt. Er nennt ihn eine "kleine Biblia", die in sich die "Summa" der ganzen Bibel enthält. Dies kommt in der Einspielung mit Rufus Beck unmittelbar zur Geltung. Er versteht es wie kaum ein anderer, die ganze Spannbreite von Leid und Freude zum Ausdruck zu bringen.

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