The Man Who Went Up in Smoke Author:Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vactaion abruptly terminated when the top brass at the Foreign Office pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known journalist who has vanished wihtout a trace. Against a vivid international background, Beck investigates some curious East European underworld ... more »figures and -- at the risk of his life -- stumbles upon the international racket in which Matsson was involved.« less
Authors have a fine talent for describing location. It is refreshing to have European locales such as a creaky hotel on the Danube. Martin Beck Plice Mystery #3