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Loading... The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (original 1999; edition 2009)by Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg (Translator), Laurie Thompson (Translator)
Work InformationThe Pyramid: The Kurt Wallander Stories by Henning Mankell (1999)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The Pyramid is a collection of five short stories featuring Kurt Wallander, Mankell's signature detective inspector. The stories are set at different points in Wallander's career, from his rookie year to the period just before the events of Faceless Killers, the first novel in the Wallander series. They provide insights into Wallander's development as a detective and his personal life, including his relationships with his father, daughter, and colleagues. Mankell wrote The Pyramid after completing the Wallander series. ( ) Prequel short stories showing Wallander as short tempered when he was young. The last story nicely lead into the first novel, faceless killers. His dad going to Egypt and a lot of him hanging around the apartment kind of dragged the stories down to a 3.5, but still love his Swedish weather descriptions. These were filler. Mankell needs the broader novel canvas. Or maybe that is what I am used to. no reviews | add a review
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: This collection of five stories traces the growth of Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander into a first-rate detective, from rookie cop to young father to middle-aged divorcé, illuminating new facets of a now-canonical character. In "Wallander's First Case," the twenty-one-year-old patrolman's first homicide case involves his next-door neighbor, seemingly dead by his own hand. Wallander is a young father confronting an unexpected threat on Christmas Eve in "The Man with the Mask." In "The Man on the Beach," he is on the brink of middle age and troubled by a distant wife as he unravels why a lonely man was poisoned. Newly separated in "The Death of the Photographer," he investigates the murder of the local photographer and discovers some well concealed secrets. In "The Pyramid" he is the veteran detective uncovering connections between a downed plane and the assassination of two elderly sisters. Over the course of these five stories, Wallander comes into his own as a murder detective, defined by his simultaneously methodical and instinctive work, even as he finds himself increasingly haunted from witnessing the worst aspects of an atomized society. Written from the unique perspective of an author looking back upon his own creation to discover his origins, these mysteries are vintage Mankell and essential reading for all Wallander fans. The Pyramid is a wonderful display of Mankell's virtuosic powers as an acknowledged master of the police procedural. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)839.7374Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Swedish literature Swedish fiction 1900-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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