| The Fire Engine That Disappeared: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (5) Contributor(s): Sjowall, Maj (Author), Wahloo, Per (Author), Dexter, Colin (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0307390926 ISBN-13: 9780307390929 Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: With a New Introduction by Colin Dexter The cunning 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 since-for reasons nobody could satisfactorily explain-a regulation firetruck 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 forty-six-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: "Martin Beck"? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011389206 |
| Series: Martin Beck Police Mystery |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.24" W x 8.04" (0.54 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sj wall and Per Wahl , 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"? |