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.
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782271970Number of pages: 160Weight: 367 gDimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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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 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
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