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  • The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

  • Martin Beck Series, Book 2
  • By: Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
  • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (47 ratings)
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

By: Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
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Summary

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.

©1967 Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (P)2011 Audible Ltd

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The narrator 's accent seemed so contrived with the last syllable of most words being artificially lenthened

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