The Man Who Went Up in Smoke. Val McDermid
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MAJ SJÖWALL AND
PER WAHLÖÖ
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate
4th Estate
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
This ebook first published by Harper Perennial in 2006
This 4th Estate edition published in 2016
This translation first published by Random House Inc, New York, in 1969
Originally published in Stockholm, Sweden,
by P. A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag
Copyright text © Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö 1966
Copyright introduction © Val McDermid 2006
Cover photograph © Shutterstock
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as the authors of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007439126
Ebook Edition © 1966 ISBN: 9780007323555
Version: 2018-05-17
From the reviews of the Martin Beck series:
‘First class’
Daily Telegraph
‘One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished’
Michael Connelly
‘Hauntingly effective storytelling’
New York Times
‘There's just no question about it: the reigning King and Queen of mystery fiction are Maj Sjöwall and her husband Per Wahlöö’
The National Observer
‘Sjöwall/Wahlöö are the best writers of police procedural in the world’
Birmingham Post
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