The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (2)
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…
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September 30, 2008Born in 1926, Per Wahlöö was a Swedish writer and journalist who, alongside his own novels, collaborated with his wife, Maj Sjöwall, on the bestselling Martin Beck crime series, which is credited as inspiring writers as varied as Agatha Christie, Henning Mankell, and Jonathan Franzen. In 1971 the fourth novel in the series, The Laughing Policeman, won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Per Wahlöö died in 1975.
Cop Killer
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Liza Marklund
The Terrorists
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Dennis Lehane
The Locked Room
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö with a New Introduction by Michael Connelly
The Abominable Man
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Intyroduction by Jens Lapidus
The Fire Engine that Disappeared
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Colin Dexter
Murder at the Savoy
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Arne Dahl
The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Jonathan Franzen
The Man on the Balcony
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Jo Nesbo
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Val McDermid
Roseanna
Maj Sjöwall and Per WahlööMaj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, her husband and coauthor, wrote ten Martin Beck mysteries. Mr Wahlöö, 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.
Cop Killer
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Liza Marklund
The Terrorists
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Dennis Lehane
The Locked Room
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö with a New Introduction by Michael Connelly
The Abominable Man
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Intyroduction by Jens Lapidus
The Fire Engine that Disappeared
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Colin Dexter
Murder at the Savoy
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Arne Dahl
The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Jonathan Franzen
The Man on the Balcony
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Jo Nesbo
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Val McDermid
Roseanna
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Cop Killer
Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo
The Terrorists
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
The Locked Room
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
The Abominable Man
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
The Fire Engine that Disappeared
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
Murder at the Savoy
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
The Laughing Policeman
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
The Man on the Balcony
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
Roseanna
Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall
A Noise Downstairs
Linwood Barclay
Blood Ties
Jo Nesbo
Clever Little Thing
Helena Echlin
A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage
Asia MacKay
I Died on a Tuesday
Jane Corry
Not a Happy Family
Shari Lapena
The Defector
Chris Hadfield
The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins
Karla's Choice
Nick Harkaway
Precipice
Robert Harris
The Mistletoe Mystery
Nita Prose
Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty
Fatal Gambit
David Lagercrantz
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Alan Bradley
Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
A Noise Downstairs
Linwood Barclay
Strangers Among Us
L. R. Wright
Mother Love
L. R. Wright
Acts of Murder
L. R. Wright
Flesh
David Szalay
Blood Ties
Jo Nesbo
Fall from Grace
L. R. Wright
Prized Possessions
L. R. Wright
A Touch of Panic
L. R. Wright
Karla's Choice
Nick Harkaway
Fatal Gambit
David Lagercrantz
The Suspect
L. R. Wright
Sleep While I Sing
L. R. Wright