Annal: 1971 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Novel
Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1971.
The Laughing Policeman: A Martin Beck Police Mystery
- 1971 Edgar–Novel winner
- Score: 10.21
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 “must reading for anyone who claims to be [a student] of the best detective fiction” (Saturday Review).