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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143113593

ISBN-139780143113591

eBay Product ID (ePID)64160946

Product Key Features

Original LanguageFrench

Book TitleThis Night's Foul Work

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Noir

Publication Year2008

GenreFiction

AuthorFred Vargas

Book SeriesA Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery Ser.

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-464567

Reviews"Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action." --Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series "Vargas writes with the startling imagery and absurdist wit of a latter-day Anouilh, about fey characters who live in a wonderful bohemian world that never was but should have been." -- The New York Times Book Review "Real vintage Vargas: playful, thought-provoking, a total delight. And beautifully translated. Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives." --Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland Island Mysteries "Fred Vargas' books are murder mysteries, yes -- cunning, corkscrew murder mysteries -- but so much else besides: delicate comedies, engrossing tours of French geography and history, fascinating excursions into folklore and myth." --A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author "It's a full, rich and strange plate." -- Seattle Times "[A] high degree of intelligence, sophistication and perversity informs [Vargas'] fiction...I continue to be delighted by the workings of [her] imagination. It's a tangled web she weaves, and a hard one to escape." --The Washington Post, Praise for Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand: "A celebration of the grand French tradition of crime writing. . . . It's finely crafted, elegantly written and very modernist." - "The Globe and Mail" "Plenty of tense entertainment." - "Toronto Star" "Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand establishes Vargas beyond doubt as a cool, clever, original and deeply humane crime writer." - "The Times Literary Supplement", Praise for Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand: Vargas pulls you . . . into the mystery with a cast of beguiling eccentrics and a plot of escalating intrigue.” —Entertainment Weekly Insanely imaginative . . . One reads to be amazed by the fantastic twists in the bizarre plot. . . . One reads as well to be delighted by the literary grace notes.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand : â€œ Vargas pulls you . . . into the mystery with a cast of beguiling eccentrics and a plot of escalating intrigue.â€� â€” Entertainment Weekly â€œ Insanely imaginative . . . One reads to be amazed by the fantastic twists in the bizarre plot. . . . One reads as well to be delighted by the literary grace notes.â€� â€”Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand : " Vargas pulls you . . . into the mystery with a cast of beguiling eccentrics and a plot of escalating intrigue." -- Entertainment Weekly " Insanely imaginative . . . One reads to be amazed by the fantastic twists in the bizarre plot. . . . One reads as well to be delighted by the literary grace notes." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Series Volume Number3

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal843.92

Synopsis"Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen of French crime writers." --Martin Walker, author of the Bruno, Chief of Police Series "A wildly imaginative series."-- The New York Times Awarded the International Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association four times, Fred Vargas has earned a reputation in Europe as a mystery author of the first order. In This Night's Foul Work , the intuitive Commissaire Adamsberg teams up with Dr. Ariane, a pathologist with whom he crossed paths twenty years ago, to unravel a beguiling mystery that begins with the discovery of two bodies in Paris's Porte de la Chapelle. Adamsberg believes it may be the work of a killer with split personalities, who is choosing his or her victims very carefully. As other murders begin to surface, Adamsberg must move quickly in order to stop the "Angel of Death" from killing again., A phenomenal bestseller in France, "This Night's Foul Work" is another irresistible installment in the internationally acclaimed Commissaire Adamsberg series.

LC Classification NumberPQ2682