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Mai Cheval and Per Valo are Swedish journalists, authors of the famous series of novels (1965–1975) about police commissioner Martin Beck, which won prestigious literary awards both in Europe and in America. Under the pen of the Cheval and Valyo spouses, the detective genre "ceases to be a game of imagination and entertaining reading material, divorced from reality" ("Times"). Along with the puzzle, the solution of which must be found by the police under the command of Martin Beck, each novel has a second plan: Sweden of that time, with its problems and contradictions, with recognizable social types, with "ceremonial" places and haunted corners of the Swedish capital. Flight to the Scaffold (1968) was ranked second in 1995 in the Detective Writers of America list of the 100 Best Crime Novels in the 1995 category of "novels that depict police work realistically." On November 13, 1967, in Stockholm, an unknown person shot all the passengers of a city bus and its driver with an automatic pistol, and then fled. Among those killed was Oke Stenström, an employee of Beck's investigation team. In his spare time, he was investigating an old case filed in the archive sixteen years ago, and now his colleagues have to solve two crimes at once... Translator Kosenko M., Chemerinsky G.