«Και συνέβαινε καμιά φορά αυτό που συμβαίνει τώρα : Ο Ζωρζ Ζερφώ τρέχει με τ' αμάξι του στον εξωτερικό περιφερειακό. Μπήκε στην Πορτ ντ' Ιβρύ. Είναι δύο και μισή το πρωί, ίσως τρεις και τέταρτο. Αρκετοί οδηγοί είναι μεθυσμένοι. Ο Ζωρζ Ζερφώ είναι. Έχει πιει πέντε μπέρμπον 4 Roses. Επίσης, πριν απ...
Manchette's The Mad and the Bad, first published in 1972, has recently been translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith and published by New York Review Books. It is a taut crime thriller which opens as wealthy Parisian architect Michel Hartog springs Julie Ballanger from a New Age mental hospital and ...
They all wore check shirts, sheepskin jackets, waterproof khaki trench coats, more or less high boots, and caps. One of the two younger guys was all skin and bone, and one of the fifty-year-olds, a bespectacled pharmacist with white hair in a crew cut, was fairly thin. The other hunters were potb...
After turning on the water and electricity, he went from room to room putting all the lights on. The place was comfortable and humdrum. It was impossible to imagine killers lying in wait in the broom closet. Gerfaut turned off most of the lights, took a shower, shaved, changed, and settled down i...
His feet were in a cardboard box on whose side could be read the word “VITTEL.” His hands were cuffed tightly behind his back. A wide piece of white adhesive tape covered his mouth. Sweat ran slowly and regularly down the very black skin of his face, and dark haloes had begun forming under his ar...