description: Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vacation abruptly terminated when the top brass at the Foreign Office pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known Swedish journalist who has vanished without a trace. Against a vivid international background, Beck investigates some curious East European underworld figures and – at the risk of his life – stumbles upon the international racket in which Matsson was involved.
language: English
title: The Man Who Went Up In Smoke
titlecomplete: The Man Who Went Up In Smoke
characters: Per Månsson, Alf Matsson, Martin Beck, Lennart Kollberg
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Nordic Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Sweden, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 8871
places: Budapest, Sweden
series: Martin Beck 
publisher: Vintage Books