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THE MAN WHO WENT UP IN SMOKE by Per Wahlöö Kirkus Star

THE MAN WHO WENT UP IN SMOKE

by Per Wahlöö & Maj Sjöwall

Pub Date: June 26th, 1969
ISBN: 0307390489
Publisher: Pantheon

The third case for that Swedish Maigret Martin Beck who in his soundproofed fashion tracks a local journalist who presumably disappeared in Budapest where he was writing some articles on Eastern European affairs. But then there's the seductive Ari Boeck there who claims she didn't know him and proves to be a very loose connection to a drug traffic, while toward the end the smoke shifts—and. . . . The undemonstrative excellence as before and again and again and again.