The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sj?all and Per Wahl?, 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 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.
Author: Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 09/30/2008
Series: Martin Beck Police Mystery #2
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.90h x 6.30w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780307390486
Language: English
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