The man who went up in smoke Author:Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm HOmicide Squad has his summer vacation abrubtly terminated when the top brass at the Foreign Offie pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known Swedish journalist who has vanished without a trace. Against a vivid international background, Beck investigates some curious East European und... more »erworld figures and at the risk of his life stumbles upon the international racket in which Matsson was involved.« less
Authors have a fine talent for describing location. It is refreshing to have European locales such as a creaky hotel on the Danube. Martin Beck Plice Mystery #3