Frédéric Dard - Free Library Land Online

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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...]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2018 23:49:01 +0200 The King of Fools https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/224003-the_king_of_fools.html https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/224003-the_king_of_fools.html

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.]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:48:59 +0200 The Wretches https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/224004-the_wretches.html https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/224004-the_wretches.html

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...
From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:49:00 +0200 The Wicked Go to Hell https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/224007-the_wicked_go_to_hell.html https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/224007-the_wicked_go_to_hell.html

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.]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:49:01 +0200 The Executioner Weeps https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/224005-the_executioner_weeps.html https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/224005-the_executioner_weeps.html

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...
From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:49:00 +0200 Bird in a Cage https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/208758-bird_in_a_cage.html https://cultural.library.land/frederic-dard/208758-bird_in_a_cage.html

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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2016 04:18:36 +0200