The Executioner Weeps

by Frédéric Dard

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Pub Date Apr 18 2017 | Archive Date Apr 21 2017

Pushkin Press | Pushkin Vertigo

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

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...

A Note From the Publisher

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a variety of noms de plume, throughout his long and illustrious career, which also saw him win the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière for The Executioner Weeps. Dard's Bird in a Cage, The Wicked Go To Hell, Crush and The Gravediggers' Bread are also available or forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo.

Advance Praise

'The French master of noir'

Observer

'Disturbing from the outset with strong echoes of Dard's hero Simenon'

Sunday Times Crime Club (star pick)

'It's exceedingly clever - when surprising things happen they slap you in the face for being so obvious, so necessary and so vital yet so surprising at the same time, and you can only squirm more enjoyably into your seat as you read on'

Bookbag

'This short, sly novel of the night has more than enough substance and mystery to keep readers awake and engrossed'

The National

'No question: for me, he was the greatest'

Philippe Geluck

'The literary descendant of Simenon and Celine'

Le Figaro

'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

'France's most popular post-war author'

L'Express

'The French master of noir'

Observer

'Disturbing from the outset with strong echoes of Dard's hero Simenon'

Sunday Times Crime Club (star pick)

'It's exceedingly clever - when surprising things happen...

Available Editions

EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9781782272564
PRICE	$13.95 (USD)
PAGES	192

The Executioner Weeps

by Frédéric Dard

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