The Fire Engine That Disappeared
- The Fire Engine That Disappeared
Infobox Book
name = The Fire Engine That Disappeared
title_orig = Brandbilen som försvann
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author = Sjöwall and Wahlöö
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country = Sweden
language = Swedish
series = "Martin Beck" series
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publisher = Norstedts Förlag
release_date = 1969
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pages = 249 pp
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preceded_by = The Laughing Policeman
followed_by = Murder at the Savoy
"The Fire Engine That Disappeared" ("Brandbilen som försvann", 1969) is the fifth in the 'Martin Beck' detective series by Sjöwall and Wahlöö.
Plot summary
A housefire, which kills three people, was about to 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 taken his own life. 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.
Character development
Beck's daughter Ingrid announces that she will leave home and encourages her father in secret to do the same. Benny Skacke is introduced as the ambitious detective to replace Stenström. Regular police officer Zachrisson is introduced.
Trivia
Martin Beck reads Raymond Chandler's "The Lady in the Lake" to relax.
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