About the book: 2020 / Mai Cheval and Per Vale are Swedish journalists, authors of the famous series of novels about Commissioner Martin Beck, awarded prestigious literary awards in both Europe and America. Martin Beck and his colleagues in a new series of investigations are faced with murders that, judging by the identities of the victims, seem logical and even natural. But knowing the motives for crimes does not bring the police any closer to solving them. Only the special quality of Commissioner Beck, which he himself calls “police intuition,” allows him to pull the right strings and unravel the whole tangle. This book includes three novels from the decalogy: “A Man Called What’s-his-name” (1969), “Police, police, mashed potatoes!” (1970), based on which a film was made at the Riga Film Studio in 1979 called “Unfinished Dinner”, and “The Scoundrel from Säflö» (1971).