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Le corps du père Canard, un vieil ermite sans ressource, est retrouvé mort, poignardé, dans la forêt. Dans ses poches, trois cent mille francs en billets. Le célèbre Commissaire Rosic apprend la nouvelle alors qu'il dîne avec le magistrat de la Région et Jacques Vix, un ancien professeur de philosophie devenu riche à la suite d'un héritage et qui se targue, auprès du policier, de pouvoir dénouer n'importe quelle intrigue à la seule force de sa réflexion.

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently — from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper...

London, 1873. Madeleine Brewster's marriage to Dr Lucius Everley was meant to be the solution to her family's sullied reputation. After all, Lucius is a well-respected collector of natural curiosities. His 'Small Museum' of bones and specimens in jars is his pride and joy, although firmly kept...

In this sparkling debut novel imbued with the rich intrigue of Kate Atkinson’s literary mysteries and the spirited heart of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, a disparate group of Londoners plunge into a search for a missing American actress. In the dreary days of November 1965, American actress...

In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and he’s held captive in an unused farmhouse. Little do the kidnappers realise that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies. Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive...