from stuart10er

A very enjoyable read. A journalist from Sweden goes missing in mid-1960s Budapest. Martin Beck must travel there on the behest of the foreign service department to see what happened to the man who went up in smoke - disappeared from his hotel with his luggage and passport still there. Good polic...

from BooksForDinner

Enjoyed this, but not as much as the first one in the series. Will definitely read number three though... the reviews of the series are always great and they all seem to clock in at 200 or so pages, so it's certainly worth it to give the next couple a shot.

from reading_fox

Much Better. Partly I think the change of translator has helped, but also the prose has improved as well. There is still little sign of the notable social commentry, or the wider focus on larger police deptments. Beck gets called away from the start of his holiday to hunt for a missing person. A ...

from rab1953

Combining the everyday drudgery of police detective work with the daily life of a police detective who has a hard time making the two fit together was, according to the notes, a departure for the genre in the 1960s. Certainly this novel, interesting if low key, is far from the English parlour det...

from bnielsen

Jugoslavien, Budapest, juli 1966. Martin Beck er på vej på en måneds ferie med familien, men kaldes tilbage af Hammar for at undersøge en journalist, Alf Sixten Matsson, som er forsvundet i Budapest i Jugoslavien. Martin Becks børn Ingrid og Rolf er 15 og 13 år gamle. Matsson har været væk i 10 d...