Pantheon Books, New York, 1967, 1^st Ed., 1^st Pr. thus.  Hard cover, 212 pages.  Former library book with associated flaws and markings.  Green cloth with a bit of shelf wear, binding sound with a slight lean, tinted top edge; fore-edge deckled; library stamp marked out on top and bottom edges of page block.  Price-clipped dust jacket shows a bit of edge wear and library identifiers on spine, with clear plastic covering taped to boards.  Interior pages are clean with occasional age spot, faded small splash marks in fore-edge margins of some pages from p. 148 onward, and a few very small drop marks on pp. 200 and 201 not affecting readability; library markings and marker on title and copyright pages only; pocket and date slip at rear have been removed with some residue; transference from taped jacket on front and rear end papers; erased pencil on title page.  Translated from the Swedish by Lois Roth.  ‘One July day, a naked woman was dredged up from the bottom of Sweden’s beautiful Lake Vattern. … Never before in all his experience as a policeman had Martin Beck been given a case to investigate where there was so little information to work on … Then, out of the blue, they received one vital fragment of information and slowly the pieces began to fall into place.  The lines of enquiry stretched from Stockholm to Turkey, to South Africa and to the United States …’ (from front flap)