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Author:

Sjöwall, Maj, 1935-

Title:

The fire engine that disappeared : a Martin Beck mystery / Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö ; translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate.

Edition:

2nd Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.

Publisher:

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

x, 213 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Beck, Martin (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police--Stockholm--Stockholm--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Arson investigation--Fiction.
Suicide--Fiction.
Stockholm (Sweden)--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Wahlöö, Per, 1926-1975.

Other Titles:

Brandbilen som försvann. English

Notes:

Previously published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1970. "A Martin Beck police mystery"--P. [1] of cover. "Introduction by Colin Dexter."

Summary:

"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"?"--P. [4] of cover.

Series:

The Martin Beck mystery series
Sjöwall, Maj, 1935- Martin Beck mystery series.

ISBN:

0307390926
9780307390929

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

LDPB975 -- Correctionville Public Library (Correctionville) — F SJO

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)