The Fire Engine That Disappeared [1970]
$100
By Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
Second US Printing of the fifth Martin Beck title
In stock
Description
- Second Impression [Pantheon Books, New York, 1970]; [vi], 213, [5 blank] pages; blue papered boards over cloth, block design to front, gilt titling to spine, a little faded along top edge, a near-fine copy; in the excellent, unclipped [$4.95] dustjacket, rubbed on edges with a little loss of laminate at spine ends
- Jacket design by James Barkley
- Translated by Joan Tate
- The original Scandi Noir series blends gripping police procedural, bleak cold settings & social realism. This is the fifth title in the series featuring Swedish homicide detective Martin Beck that ran for 10 books in total.
- ISBN: 0-394-41208-7 / 0394412087



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