A cop receives a mission - to win the confidence of an enemy spy, currently in prison, and so to expose destroy his spy ring. What better way to allay his suspicions than for the policeman to enter the prison himself, posing as a criminal? So, Frank and Hal end up sharing a cell, but who is the spy and who is the cop? And who will win their claustrophobic game of cat and mouse? Memorably filmed by Robert Hossein in 1955, this tense and brilliantly original thriller is one of Dard's most powerful.

The Wicked Go To Hell (Pushkin Vertigo)

Literature & Fiction

Dard, Frédéric

Genre Fiction

Pushkin Vertigo

An ingenious thriller, set in Edinburgh, from the master of French noir. Jean-Marie can't believe his luck when he has a passionate triste with a beautiful young Englishwoman, Marjory, who is holidaying in the Côte d'Azur. However, when he discovers his lover is married he is crestfallen, and when she returns to her home in rainy Edinburgh he is heartbroken. He takes a fateful decision: to follow her. He arrives in Scotland. but soon the jealous husband appears, and a deadly encounter is only the beginning of a nightmarish, disorienting drama.

The King of Fools (Pushkin Vertigo)

Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of colour, good humour and easy living in drab 1950s Léopoldville, and soon Louise is working there as a maid. But once she is under her new employers' roof their model life starts to fall apart - painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear and a dark obsession begins to grow, which will end in murder...

Crush (Pushkin Vertigo)

30-year-old Albert returns to Paris after six years away, during which time his mother has passed away, to find himself entangled in a complicated case centred around a woman he met at a restaurant whose husband's body appears in her lounge, but then disappears almost inexplicably.

Bird in a Cage (Pushkin Vertigo)

Literary

A claustrophobic thriller from the French master of noir. Blaise should never have hung around in that charmless little provincial town. The job offer that attracted him in the first place had failed to materialize. He should have got on the first train back to Paris, but Fate decided otherwise. A chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post-office and Blaise is hooked - he realizes he'll do anything to stay by her side, and soon finds himself working for her husband, a funeral director. But the tension in this strange love triangle begins to mount, and eventually results in a highly unorthodox burial...

The Gravediggers' Bread (Pushkin Vertigo)

On a quiet mountain road near Barcelona, a woman steps out in front of a car. When the driver, a well-known artist, stops to some to her aid, he finds she is alive, but without any memory of who she is or where she has come from. As he tries to help her remember her past, the artist finds himself falling in love, but as secrets from the woman's forgotten life start to come to light, he finds his new romance turning into a nightmare...

The Executioner Weeps (Pushkin Vertigo)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Croquelune (Littérature Française)

FAYARD

Le commissaire San-Antonio est apparu en 1949 sous la plume du romancier Frédéric Dard (1921-2000), alors âgé de seulement vingt-huit ans. Un demi-siècle plus tard, le flic dandy est entré dans la légende au même titre que les Trois Mousquetaires, les Pieds Nickelés – dont il s'est toujours senti très proche – ou son placide confrère Maigret. Entre-temps, il a rallié les suffrages d'un public assidu et varié, sensible à la verve très inventive de son créateur, à un humour dévastateur et aux très pittoresques personnages peuplant son univers, à commencer par le truculent et dionysiaque Bérurier. La saga San-Antonio, forte de 175 épisodes, constitue aujourd'hui un monument de fi ction sans pareil dans lequel se fondent les multiples talents d'un écrivain définitivement rebelle à toutes les formes d'académisme. Son oeuvre est ici publiée selon les textes originaux et pour la première fois dans sa chronologie... François Rivière.\nCe volume contient : Réglez-lui son compte !, Laissez tomber la fille, Les souris ont la peau tendre, Mes hommages à la donzelle, Du plomb dans les tripes, Des dragées sans baptême, Des clientes pour la morgue, Descendez-le à la prochaine, Passez-moi la Joconde.

San-Antonio - tome 1 (01)

Thrillers & Suspense

BOUQUINS

La saga San-Antonio, forte de 175 épisodes, constitue aujourd'hui un monument de fiction sans pareil dans lequel se fondent les multiples talents d'un écrivain définitivement rebelle à toutes les formes d'académisme. Son œuvre est ici publiée selon les textes originaux et pour la première fois dans sa chronologie... Contient: À tue... et à toi, Ça tourne au vinaigre, Les Doigts dans le nez, Au suivant de ces messieurs, Des gueules d'enterrement, Les anges se font plumer, La Tombola des voyous, J'ai peur des mouches, Le Secret de polichinelle, Du poulet au menu, Tu vas trinquer San-Antonio.

San-Antonio - tome 3 (03)

Rivière, François

San-Antonio - tome 9 (09)

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