Martin Beck is a fictional Swedish police detective who is the main character in series of ten novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, collectively titled The Story of a Crime. The stories are frequently referred to as the Martin Beck stories. All of the novels have been adapted to films between 1967 and 1994, six of which featured Gösta Ekman as Martin Beck. Between 1997 and 2016 there have also been 34 films only based on the characters, with Peter Haber as Martin Beck.