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About The Fire Engine that Disappeared. The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career.The 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.
The Fire Engine That Disappeared (1993) Movie Info Synopsis Stockholm policemen (Gösta Ekman, Rolf Lassgård) track a narcotics syndicate, culminating in a violent airport showdown.
A little less of Martin Beck, a little more of his associates in another nonpareil procedural novel which pursues with thin-and-tight-lipped realism the aftermath of an explosion in a Stockholm apartment house. Among the initial victims is Maim, who was active in a stolen car and drug traffic but was dead before the fire broke out, and before it's finally put out, there are further fatalities. Once again the reader is handcuffed to the page by the chronometer precision and timing.
The Fire Engine That Disappeared (film) Brandbilen som försvann; Directed by: Hajo Gies: Produced by: Hans Lönnerheden: Screenplay by: Rainer Berg Beate Langmaack ...
THE FIRE ENGINE THAT DISAPPEARED is about a case in which a large house blows up: was it deliberate arson or an accidental blaze? Due to a coincidence bought about by his own personality quirks, Larsson himself, a senior detective, witnesses the explosion that decimates the house, and becomes a hero in rescuing some of the inhabitants from a certain death.
Dec 6, 2012 · In The Fire Engine that Disappeared, adapted from the fifth book, the apartment of a suspect being staked out by Beck’s team explodes, killing three people. Arson and murder aren’t at first suspected, but it soon becomes clear that the fire was started on purpose.
