New York. 1977. April 1977. Vintage Books. 1st Vintage Paperback Edition. 1969 Circled on Copyright Page, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0394723406. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. 219 pages. paperback. V-340. keywords: Mystery Sweden Translated Literature. DESCRIPTION - A dingy Stockholm apartment house under police surveillance blows up in an explosion that kills at least three people. Chief Inspector Martin Beck and his men don't suspect arson or murder until they discover a peculiar circumstance and a link is established with a suicide committed the same day, in which the dead man left a note reading simply Martin Beck. The story is very fast-moving and the characters extremely well-drawn. - The Pittsburgh Press. inventory #45599 1969 Circled on Copyright Page, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers.

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Title: The Fire Engine That Disappeared: A Martin Beck Police Mystery
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1977
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394723406
ISBN 13: 9780394723402
Binding: paperback
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Commissioner Martin Beck's associates begin a search for a ladder truck whose disappearance resulted in the death of eleven people

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MAJ SJOWALL AND PER WAHLOO, wife and husband team, wrote ten Martin Beck mysteries. Maj Sjowall, besides being a crime novelist, is also a poet. Per Wahloo, 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 Sjowall is also a poet.

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