In una casa di quattro piani, nota nel quartiere come “topaia”, s’insediano Marc, Lucien e Mathias, tre storici squinternati e squattrinati. Armand Vandoosler, ex sbirro corrotto, zio e padrino di Marc li raggiunge. Una stamberga di quattro piani, un piano per ciascuno. Sul fronte occidentale, nel g...
A young miscreant is setup for a fall by powerful men, a pigeon needs rescuing and the great hunt appears to claim evil men in the Normandie. Commissaire Adamsberg, his son and his team of special characters have a lot on their plate in this latest installment of the series. I very much enjoy the ca...
There are so many choices here. Crime is one of my favourite genres and there are many titles I could put here. I chose Die schöne Diva von Saint-Jacques (The Three Evangelists) by Fred Vargas because it is not so well known but an absolutely great mystery which I think should be known too a lot mor...
A female author named Fred and a French protagonist named Adamsberg. These are your first clues that this series is a little off plumb, but more fly at you quickly in these books, and the seventh in the series, The Ghost Riders of Ordebec, is no different. We begin with Commissaire Adamsberg of the ...
This is the first novel published in 1994 by Fred Vargas. A very popular and notorious mystery writer in the French world right now. I hadn't read any of her novels yet. At the height of the hype frenzy (2 years ago) we couldn't keep the books on the shelves. Now, things have quiet down a bit and I ...
The main character is a sailor from Breton who, presumably, speaks in a Breton dialect. So the translator, genius that he is, decided that the way to translate this is to make him sound like a lower-class british sailor 'heave-ho, on yer arse, mate... oh, lordy, lordy!' from Liverpool (or whatever)....
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