The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Val McDermid

Maj Sjowall

Per Wahloo

The second book in the hugely acclaimed Martin Beck series: the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime fiction and influenced writers from Stieg Larrson to Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Lars Kepplar.A Swedish journalist has vanished without a trace in Budapest. When Detective Inspector Martin Beck arrives in the city to investigate, he is drawn to an Eastern European underworld in search of a man nobody knows. With the aid of the coolly efficient local police, he reveals a web of crime, stretching back across Europe – a discovery that will put his own life at risk.

MAJ SJÖWALL AND

PER WAHLÖÖ

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate

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This ebook first published by Harper Perennial in 2006

This 4th Estate edition published in 2016

This translation first published by Random House Inc, New York, in 1969

Originally published in Stockholm, Sweden,

by P. A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag

Copyright text © Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö 1966

Copyright introduction © Val McDermid 2006

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007439126

Ebook Edition © 1966 ISBN: 9780007323555

Version: 2018-05-17

From the reviews of the Martin Beck series: (#ulink_02b38142-6d8a-568a-89f9-61bfc19d5dc5)

‘First class’

Daily Telegraph

‘One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished’

Michael Connelly

‘Hauntingly effective storytelling’

New York Times

‘There's just no question about it: the reigning King and Queen of mystery fiction are Maj Sjöwall and her husband Per Wahlöö’

The National Observer

‘Sjöwall/Wahlöö are the best writers of police procedural in the world’

Birmingham Post

Contents

Title Page (#u381f78f0-a5e4-53bf-82ce-cf8a48a2508f)

Copyright (#u9b6e0682-b2a2-5f90-8c20-86ba65987238)

Praise (#ua3c84c0d-9beb-5f97-87ab-04f5339bd881)

Introduction (#udee127b4-ef00-5c17-9195-085ba943a0b1)

Chapter 1 (#u97bd3b7b-5dfa-549e-b137-af11c306755c)

Chapter 2 (#u9d085c96-65bd-56a9-9b55-da1961b78066)

Chapter 3 (#u7d7d8083-ea42-594b-a2fa-9349386b32b7)

Chapter 4 (#u06a8a564-8ef7-5397-8b6f-96a55b6cef0a)