The Inspector Is Not a Fan of Poetry
Publisher
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Table ronde
Parution date
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2010
EAN
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9782710331629
Number of pages
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299
Description
***Translation sample available***
The police commissioner of the title—Viviane Lancier—is the star of what promises to be the first of a series of mysteries with a Parisian setting and a particularly French attitude. Chief Inspector Lancier displays an intellectual bravura, a caustic wit, and a dislike for poetry. Too bad her investigation involves a poem that may or may not have originated with Baudelaire—but is certainly deadly.
Viviane Lancier, a chief inspector for the Parisian police, has just started a new diet and is not happy about it. She directs her ire at her new assistant, the charming though clumsy Augustin Monot. Monot has just written a lengthy report on the death of a street vagrant who goes by the name of Victor Hugo. The report reads more like a detective novel than a police document, and Lancier is not pleased with its literary style, so she decides to put a stop to Monot’s literary inclinations. Her antiliterary stance is tested, however, when she finds that the so-called Victor Hugo died when on his way to take a poem, supposedly written by Charles Baudelaire, to the Académie Française. The erotic sonnet he was carrying, thought to be worthy of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, is cursed, and everyone who shows interest in it is threatened with death or actually winds up in the morgue. Lancier is plunged into an investigation in which mystery and mockery extend to the living, to the dead, and even to ghosts.
The Inspector Is Not a Fan of Poetry is an intricately plotted jigsaw puzzle that grips the reader to the very last page.
Author
Georges Flipo : Georges Flipo is the author of three collections of short stories and of the very well received novel Le film va faire un malheur (Le Castor Astral, 2009), which won the Prix du Salon du livre du net. The Inspector Is Not a Fan of Poetry is his sixth work. His Web site is at www.georges-flipo-auteur.com, where the blog that he avidly writes for can al
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