The Fire Engine That Disappeared, Maj Sjwall and Per Wahl Translated by Joan Tate
The Fire Engine That Disappeared, Maj Sjwall and Per Wahl Translated by Joan Tate
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The Fire Engine That Disappeared
A Martin Beck Police Story

Author: Maj Sjwall and Per Wahl; Translated by Joan Tate

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/02/2009


Synopsis

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 because, for reasons nobody could satisfactorily explain, 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 fortysixyearold bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: "Martin Beck"?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brad on November 05, 2024

I can't remember what I've said previously about the Martin Beck books (beyond my general positivity), so I apologize if you find me repeating myself (I am too lazy to go back and read all my previous reviews). I think it is also important to note that my star rating here is contrasted with the othe......more

Goodreads review by Dave on March 20, 2022

The Fire Engine That Disappeared is #5 in the Martin Beck series by ​​Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, and it’s a good one, a superb police procedural with a side of social commentary. Sjöwall and Wahlöö are socialists, and this 1969 book reflects some of their glum thinking about the failed “liberal exp......more

Goodreads review by paper0r0ss0 on November 05, 2021

Episodio un po' sottotono della saga di Martin Beck, nel quale peraltro il nostro eroe quasi non compare. I personaggi comprimari la fanno da padrone in un'indagine difficile ma non particolarmente intrigante. In questa opacita' emerge pero' una gustosa rappresentazione di figure umane caratteristic......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on August 09, 2016

Another one of the top books of the series (yes, it is crowded at that particular top!). This one continues to develop the characters and the mystery is a great one. Just the right amount of the happenings are due to random chance to give that unique feeling of reality.......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on March 01, 2011

Arriving at the 5th installment out of the 10-book series to feature Martin Beck, the action begins on a freezing night police as Detective Gunvald Larsson goes to check on Officer Zachrisson, who is maintaining a surveillance on an apartment house. Offering a bit of a respite to the near-frozen off......more