Frédéric Dard

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

San-Antonio,

Attention. Pour les amateurs de San-Antonio, ce livre constitue un événement. En effet, il s'agit du PREMIER SAN-ANTONIO publié par un petit éditeur lyonnais en 1949. C'est par ces pages qu'a commencé la plus étonnante épopée littéraire de l'après-guerre. Voici donc les premiers pas de ce héros, dont un psychiatre a dit récemment qu'il était " La Santé de la France ".

Réglez-lui son compte !

" Je suis mademoiselle Sans-Nom ! Venant de Nulle-part. Née il y a trois semaines sur l'autoroute de Barcelone... " On aurait dit que la jeune fille blonde s'était jetée sous les roues de la voiture du jeune artiste peintre en vacances dans ce joli port catalan. Qui est cette douce inconnue ? D'où vient-elle ? " Maintenant je savais. La vérité dépassait en tristesse tout ce qu'on pouvait imaginer. C'était l'histoire la plus navrante, la plus sinistre que j'avais jamais entendue. " Un Frédéric Dard impitoyable conduit cette tragédie policière où l'enquêteur, partagé entre l'amour et la terreur, hésite à résoudre l'énigme d'une existence qui ressemble à un martyr et à un cauchemar.

Le bourreau pleure

I bastardi vanno all'inferno

A fiendish tale of passion, betrayal, and murder in Edinburgh, Scotland—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. But when he discovers she is married, he is crestfallen. When she returns to her home in rainy Edinburgh, he is heartbroken. He decides to take the biggest gamble of his life: he follows her. No sooner has Jean-Marie arrived in Scotland than his luck runs out. Marjory’s husband is a jealous man—and a deadly encounter is only the beginning of a nightmarish, disorienting drama in the grey-granite labyrinth of the city.

The King of Fools

Estanislao Peinado

El Montacargas

Baby-meurtre

A chilling 1950s suspense story of youthful naivety, dark obsession—and the slippery slope to murder Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother, and her alcoholic father-in-law, 17-year-old Louise Lacroix is captivated by a glamorous American couple who moves to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of color, good humor, and easy living in drab 1950s Léopoldville—a place straight out of Louise’s dreams. Louise is thrilled when she successfully convinces the couple to hire her as their maid. But once she is under their 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 . . .

Crush

A claustrophobic thriller about love gone wrong, 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. After a chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post-office, 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

« Ce n’est que lorsque les gens n’auront plus honte de paraître ce qu’ils sont qu’on pourra essayer quelque chose. » Frédéric Dard Ce récit traduit les sentiments d’un jeune garçon en 1940. Il met en forme un certain nombre de « choses vues » depuis le début de la guerre à Lyon et dans sa région, les impressions d’un garçon trop jeune pour être mobilisé tandis que ses aînés sont aux Armées. Avec un sens du réel saisissant, le héros du livre nous conte son entrée dans une usine de guerre, une idylle innocente, l’inquiétude du mois de mai, les alertes, la tragédie de juin 40 et les scènes de l’exode, l’entrée des troupes allemandes à Lyon et ses conséquences dramatiques. Mettant à profit une trêve dans son activité de journaliste lyonnais, Frédéric Dard se consacre là à un ouvrage ambitieux, délibérément autobiographique, qui révèle le vrai visage d’un tout jeune auteur. L’Equipe de l’ombre contient beaucoup d’images rapides et fortes qui obsèdent longtemps le lecteur. Il a été édité en 1941 aux éditions Lugdunum à Lyon.

Équipe de l'ombre

Le pain des fossoyeurs

Tough Justice

Winner of the 1957 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière: A macabre thriller about the dangerous pitfalls of love It was fate that led her to step out in front of the car. A quiet mountain road. A crushed violin. And a beautiful woman lying motionless in the ditch. Carrying her back to his lodging on a beach near Barcelona, Daniel discovers that the woman is still alive but that she remembers nothing—not even her own name. And soon he has fallen for her mysterious allure. She is a blank canvas, a perfect muse, and his alone. But when Daniel travels to France in search of her past, he slips into a tangled vortex of lies, depravity, and murder. Written by one of the masters of French noir, The Executioner Weeps won the 1957 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France's most prestigious literary award for crime fiction writers.

The Executioner Weeps

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Wicked Go To Hell

Michaël Sanlaville

Le grand retour de San-Antonio ! La BD de Michaël Salanville adaptée du roman de Frédéric Dard.

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