The Fire Engine That Disappeared

by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö · first published 1969

The Fire Engine That Disappeared (Brandbilen som försvann) is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Sjöwall and Wahlöö, published in 1969. It is the fifth book in the Martin Beck detective series. In the novel a house fire, which kills three people, was about to be written off as the result of a tenant's gas suicide when a forensics officer discovers a firebomb in the rubble that would have certainly killed the tenant had he not killed himself. Beck and his team launch a manhunt for the tenant's partner-in-crime, but are perplexed when the partner-in-crime is found dead at the bottom of the sea.

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Genre:

Detective fiction, Police procedural

Original language:

Swedish

Year page:

1969