The King of Fools
Frédéric Dard author Louise Rogers Lalaurie translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:4th May '17
Should be back in stock very soon
From the moment he first gazes at Marjory across the roulette table in the Côte 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.
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. Frédéric 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 *
Sure to appeal to fans of Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and Georges Simenon... A slim novel with laconic prose and a stunning plot, The King of Fools will keep many a mystery lover up too late - and waiting eagerly for the next novel of Dard's to be translated into English * Shelf Awareness *
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 * Solidarité Militaire *
ISBN: 9781782271970
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
160 pages