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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (2)

Name: The Man Who Went Up in Smoke: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (2)
Brand: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
SKU: 9780307390486
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Contributors:

Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, Val McDermid (Introduction by)

Publisher:

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Mystery & Detective, Thrillers

Book Topic:

Police Procedural, Suspense

Series:

Martin Beck Police Mystery #2

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Release Date:

2008-09-30

ISBN 13:

9780307390486

Weight:

0.49 lbs

Size:

7.90 x 6.30 x 0.61 inches

Pages:

208

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Description

The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck searching Budapest for a well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace. With an introduction by Val McDermid: "So many of the elements that have become integral...in the police procedural subgenre started life in these ten novels....Their plots are second to none."

Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vacation abruptly terminated when the top brass at the foreign office pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known Swedish journalist who has vanished. Beck investigates viperous Eastern European underworld figures and--at the risk of his life--stumbles upon the international racket in which Matsson was involved. With the coolly efficient local police on his side and a predatory nymphet on his tail, Beck pursues a case whose international implications grow with each new clue.

About the Author

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, her husband and coauthor, wrote ten Martin Beck mysteries. They plotted and researched each book together then wrote alternate chapters. The books were written over a ten year period and carefully planned to allow for gradual character development and evolving social commentary as the series continued. Mr Wahloo, who died in 1975, was a reporter for several Swedish newspapers and magazines and wrote numerous radio and television plays, film scripts, short stories, and novels. Maj Sjöwall is also a poet.