The Fire Engine That Disappeared (A Martin Beck Police Mystery #5)

Sjowall, Maj; Wahloo, Per

ISBN 10: 0394723406 / ISBN 13: 9780394723402

Published by Vintage Books, New York, 1977

About this Item

Spine slanted with some creasing. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy.; Vintage V-340, $1. 65 cover price. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate.; Martin Beck; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 218 pages; "The cunning incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment house one cold winter night not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's 11 occupants. And if one of police commissioner Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe since - for reasons nobody could satisfactorily explain - the fire department didn't arrive until too late. How could a regulation-sized ladder truck vanish in the center of Stockholm? 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'?".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fire Engine That Disappeared (A Martin Beck Police Mystery #5)
• Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394723406
• ISBN 13: 9780394723402
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: 1st Vintage Printing.
• Condition: Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery

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Synopsis

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

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.