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

"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." --Chicago Tribune"Ingenious. . . . Their mysteries don't just read well; they reread even better. . . . The writing is lean, with mournful undertones."--The New York Times"The husband-wife combination forms a superb story-telling team."--El Paso Times

Stockholm Homicide Squad's Inspector Martin Beck is assigned to search for Alf Matsson, a vanished Swedish journalist, and finds himself becoming involved in an international racket that leads him to some enigmatic Eastern European underworld figures. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.