" Martin Beck is an early avatar of the more famous Wallander - that is, he's a gloomy Swedish policeman, solving murders and having a complicated personal life (but in the early 1970s). This is the last in the series, and, if typical, encourages me to read the others - it is very much of its time, with a liberal sprinkling of 1970s leftish politics and attitudinising about 'capitalism' and 'imperialism', and so on, but it has strong characterisations and good plot lines, with an unembellished prose style, a long way from the slightly romantic style of much of American noir. "
— Andrewh, 2/6/2014