The Laughing Policeman (released theatrically in the UK as An Investigation of Murder) is a 1973 American police procedural film loosely based on the 1968 novel The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö.The setting of the story is transplanted from Stockholm to San Francisco.It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and features Walter Matthau as Detective Jake Martin. Rights Society: MCPSMatrix / Runout (Label matrix, side A): 7XCA 33204 It is the fourth of ten novels featuring police detective Martin Beck. The Laughing Policeman (1973) is an American police procedural film loosely based on the novel The Laughing Policeman by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman Lyrics. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Laughing Policeman, of course, is #4 in the ten-part detective Martin Beck series. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side. "The Laughing Policeman" is an awfully good police movie: taut, off-key, filled with laconic performances. Listen free to Charles Penrose – The Laughing Policeman (The Laughing Policeman, The Window Cleaner and more). With Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen. It's almost the kind of movie, indeed, to blast loose a detective-novel fan from Ross Macdonald. Charles Penrose (11 November 1873 – 17 November 1952) was a British music hall and theatre performer, and later radio comedian, who is best known for his unusual comic song " The Laughing Policeman is a mystery novel by the Swedish writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, originally published in Sweden in 1968 as Den skrattande polisen and translated into English in 1970. The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is a Swedish mystery novel published in Sweden in 1968 and translated into English for American audiences in 1970.It is the fourth of ten novels by the duo to follow Detective Beck. In San Francisco, California, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. The Laughing Policeman / Laughter And Lemons When I'm Cleaning Windows / Keep Your Seats Please ('When I'm Cleaning Windows' aka 'The Window Cleaner') The Lion And Albert / Albert Comes Back. The novel begins with the shooting of a number of passengers on a bus, eight of whom die, including the acclaimed Detective Åke Stenström. It provides the special delight we get from gradually unraveling a complicated case. Barcode and Other Identifiers. The Laughing Policeman primarily centers around the day-to-day work of Martin and his team as they painstakingly investigate the mass murder on the city bus, and ultimately turn their attention to the activities of their now-deceased colleague prior to his death. 3 tracks (9:47). 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