The Man who went up in Smoke

Resumen del libro

The Man who went up in Smoke' starts as Martin Beck has just begun his holiday: an August spent with his family on a small island off the coast of Sweden. But when a neighbour gets a phone call, Beck finds himself packed off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace. Instead of passing leisurely sun-filled days with his children, Beck must troll about in the Eastern Europe underworld for a man nobody knows, with the aid of the coolly efficient local police, who do business while soaking at the public baths - and at the risk of vanishing along with his quarry.

Biografía del autor

MAJ SJÖWAL (Estocolmo. 1935 - Landskrona 2020) y PER WAHLÖÖ (Gotemburgo, 1926- Malmö, 1975). Son la pareja más conocida internacionalmente de la literatura negra sueca. Sjöwal, empleada de una importante editorial, conoció a Wahlöö cuando este ya había publicado varios libros de temática política. En 1962, iniciaron una brillante carrera conjunta, esencialmente dedicada al género criminal. Su obra, traducida a más de treinta idiomas, la conforman un total de diez novelas protagonizadas por el comisario Martin Beck, todas ellas publicadas por RBA.