The King of Fools
Published on 4. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-78227-197-0 (ISBN)
Description
From the moment he first gazes at Marjory across the roulette table in the Cote d'Azur Jean-Marie is entranced, and when their feverish holiday romance comes to an end he decides to take the biggest gamble of his life - to follow the beautiful Englishwoman back to rainy Edinburgh.
But no sooner has Jean-Marie arrived than his luck runs out. He is drawn into an impenetrable mystery and soon, with blood on his hands, trapped in the grey-granite labyrinth of the city, he is running out of time to save his sanity and his life. The King of Fools is a fiendish tale of passion, betrayal and murder.
But no sooner has Jean-Marie arrived than his luck runs out. He is drawn into an impenetrable mystery and soon, with blood on his hands, trapped in the grey-granite labyrinth of the city, he is running out of time to save his sanity and his life. The King of Fools is a fiendish tale of passion, betrayal and murder.
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The French master of noir * The Observer * Alongside the Maigret novels of Georges Simenon there is a rich vein of period French crime still to be tapped. Frederic Dard is a case in point * Daily Mail * At heart, The King of Fools is another Dard Noir Romance, a book about a love story gone bad, which is charming and engaging far beyond the plot details * International Crime Fiction * Sure to appeal to fans of Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and Georges Simenon... A slim novel with laconic prose and a stunning plot, The King of Fools will keep many a mystery lover up too late - and waiting eagerly for the next novel of Dard's to be translated into English * Shelf Awareness * The literary descendant of Simenon and Celine * Le Figaro * No question: for me, he was the greatest * Philippe Geluck * France's most popular post-war author * L'Express * His language is cutting, his point-of-view original and his verdict uncompromising... One of the few twentieth-century authors to win both critical acclaim and great popularity * Solidarite Militaire *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pushkin Press
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78227-197-0 (9781782271970)
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Frederic Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a variety of noms de plume, throughout his long and illustrious career, which also saw him win the 1957 Grand prix de litterature policiere for The Executioner Weeps, forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo. Dard's Bird in a Cage, The Wicked Go to Hell, Crush and the The Gravediggers' Bread are also available or forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo.