The Fire Engine that Disappeared: The Story of a Crime

Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

ISBN 10: 0394412087 / ISBN 13: 9780394412085

Published by Pantheon Books, Random House, 1970

About this Item

St Marys Books is proud to present this 1970 first American edition of The Fire Engine that Disappeared The Story of a Crime by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo Housed in its original black dustjacket featuring a dramatic charcoal illustration of figures attempting to escape a house on fire this hardback book is bound in quarter navy cloth with silver gilt lettering to the spine and blue boards Inside one finds 213 pages of text detailing the gruesome mystery of a fatal housefire which was going to be written off as the result of a tenants gas suicide when a forensics officer discovers more This copy and its original dustjacket are in very good condition with few notable blemishes or imperfections they appear virtually as new The Fire Engine that Disappeared is looking for a new home and would make for the perfect gift for any lover of a good mysterynbsp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fire Engine that Disappeared: The Story of a Crime
• Publisher: Pantheon Books, Random House
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394412087
• ISBN 13: 9780394412085
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career.The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe because somehow a regulation fire-truck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak? And what if, anything, did the explosion have to do with the peculiar death earlier that day of a 46-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: "Martin Beck"?

About the Author

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.