The Man Who Went Up In Smoke

Authors:
Sjowall & Wahloo
Translated into English 1969

Description:
What it says on the cover

A journalist has vanished without trace in Budapest. When Martin Beck arrives in the city to investigate, he is drawn into an Eastern European underworld in search of a man that nobody knows. What he discovers will put his life at risk.

Swedish detective Inspector Martin Beck is a master of human nature and relentless in his pursuit of criminals. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke is the second in the Martin Beck series, widely recognised as some of the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, inspiration for writers from Graham Greene to Henning Mankell.