The Man Who Went Up in Smoke - (Martin Beck Police Mystery) by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Vintage announces the re-launch of the Martin Beck Police Mystery series, with new jackets and fresh introductions from some of the biggest names in Crime Fiction today. All ten books from Edgar Award-winners Sjwall and Wahl will be forthcoming in paperback in the next few seasons. Enormously satisfying.... Terse, tense, and eminently readable.--"Chicago Tribune"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Sjöwall and Wahlöö write unsparingly and unswervingly. . . . Fast moving storytelling. . . . Their plots are second to none." --Val McDermid, from the introduction "Enormously satisfying. . . . Terse, tense and eminently readable." --<i>Chicago Tribune</i>"Ingenious. . . . Their mysteries don't just read well; they reread even better. . . . The writing is lean, with mournful undertones."--<i>The New York Times</i>"The husband-wife combination forms a superb story-telling team."--<i>El Paso Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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. <p/></p>
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