During the First World War five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no man's land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered; the families are notified that the men died in the line of duty... After ...
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate -- and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed -- o...
A classic noir suspense novel back in print. Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including D...
A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseille to Paris. She is not in the embrace of sleep, or even in the arms of one of her many lovers. She is dead. The unpleasant task of finding her kill...
The task of finding the killer of a beautiful young woman found sprawled in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris is handed to an overworked, crime-weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, who would rather play hide...
Made aware at the age of nine that she is the product of a gang raping of her mother, a young woman uses her sexual wiles to lure her husband into a deadly plot against the men whom she believes to be the rapists...
A beach house at a French resort is destroyed by a suspicious fire. In it are two young women - one rich, the other poor. Only one of them survives, burned beyond recognition and in a state of total amnesia. Plastic surgery gives her a lovely new fac...
A young newlywed, a prostitute, a Hollywood bombshell, a Japanese art student, and a lawyer all fall in love with the same Frenchman, who appears in a very different guise to each. Originally published as
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'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene”' The...
He is suddenly and monstrously there, and his mask disguises nothing . . .The bus never stops in Le Cap-des-Pins. Not in autumn, when the small Riviera resort is deserted. Except today, when a man with a red bag and a disconcerting stare steps out in...