The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
A Martin Beck Police Mystery
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
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Narrated by:
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Tom Weiner
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Written by:
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Maj Sjöwall
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Per Wahlöö
His holiday with his family has just begun, but a phone call sends Martin Beck packing off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace. With the aid of the coolly efficient local police, who do business while soaking at the public baths, Beck must troll about in the Eastern Europe underworld for a man nobody knows—while he is at the risk of vanishing along with his quarry.
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke gives us the dedicated Beck at his most engaging: indulging in the sumptuous Hungarian cuisine, longing for a decent cigarette, and evading a predatory nymphet, even as he pursues a case whose international boundaries grow with every new clue.
©1966 Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö; translation copyright © 1969, © 1997 by Random House, Inc. (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic Reviews
“Martin Beck is a man driven to solve puzzles, with a small tragic intuition swimming deep in his mental waters that will surface suddenly to give a muted howl and then dive down again.”
(New York Times)“They changed the genre. Whoever is writing crime fiction after these novels is inspired by them in one way or another.”
(Henning Mankell, author of Firewall)“Enormously satisfying.”
(Washington Post Book World)“If you haven’t read Sjowall/Wahloo, start now.”
(Sunday Telegraph)“The depth of Tom Weiner’s masculine timbre accurately brings the flawed, depressed Beck to the mind’s eye. Weiner’s oft-used monotone is reminiscent of early noir cinema, and he skillfully employs a lightness of tone when vocalizing women’s voices.”
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