Melville International Crime
2 total works
In a demonstration in Paris in 1961, hundreds of Algerians are killed by the police. During the demonstration, Roger Thiraud, a young history teacher, is murdered. Twenty years later, Bernard, his son, is murdered in Toulouse. To find the connection between the murders takes Inspector Cadin on an investigation into the shabby compromises of wartime politics. Winner of the 1984 Detective Fiction Prize, Murder in Memoriam is an impressive debut by the leading light of the new wave of French thriller writers.
It is January 1920: the aftermath of the war to end all wars. Ren? Griffon, a private detective with a Packard to pay for, is hired to investigate the marital infidelities of the wife of a war hero. Griffon's investigation plunges him into a murky world of blackmail, murder, anarchists, profiteering and the repercussions of the dark secrets of war. The people who helped France to win the war are being made to pay for the peace.