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An Uncertain Place (Commissaire Adamsberg)

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Description for An Uncertain Place (Commissaire Adamsberg) paperback. Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere, a young sergeant. The city offers a welcome change of scenery until a gruesome discovery is made. Translator(s): Reynolds, Sian; Reynolds, Sian. Series: Commissaire Adamsberg. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.

Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction

Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere, a young sergeant. The city offers a welcome change of scenery until a gruesome discovery is made - just outside the gates of Highgate Cemetery a pile of shoes, all containing severed feet, is found.

Returning to Paris, the three men are then confronted with the violent killing and dismemberment of a wealthy, elderly man. Both the dead man's son and gardener have motives for murder, but soon another ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Commissaire Adamsberg
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099552239
SKU
V9780099552239
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-46

About Fred Vargas
Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.

Reviews for An Uncertain Place (Commissaire Adamsberg)
One of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic
Marcel Berlins
The Times
Frederique Vargas['s]...imaginative characters put most of America's top-rated crime writers to shame
Observer
Wonderfully intricate and gothic
Jane Jakeman
Independent
An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that ... Read more

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