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The sleeping car murders / Sébastien Japrisot ; translated by Francis Price.

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A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris. She is not in the embrace of sleep, or even in the arms of one of her many lovers. She is dead. And the unpleasant task of finding her killer is handed to an overworked, crime-weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, nicknamed Grazzi, who would rather play hide-and-seek with his little son than cat and mouse with a diabolically cunning, savage murderer.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781910477939
  • ISBN: 1910477931
  • Physical Description: 201 pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: London : Gallic Books, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in 1962.
Language Note:
Translated from the French.
Subject: Murder > France > Paris > Fiction.
Sleeping cars (Railroads) > France > Paris > Fiction.
Paris (France) > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Scenic Regional.

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The Sleeping Car Murders
The Sleeping Car Murders
by Japrisot, Sebastien (Author, Author); Price, Francis (Translator)
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The Sleeping Car Murders


Described as 'the Graham Greene of France' by The Independent, cult French noir writer Japrisot brings us a murder mystery set in a Parisian landscape of lust, deception and death. 'Sensational' Sunday Times When the night train pulled into Paris, she was dead. And the riddle began . . . A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseille to Paris. She is not in the embrace of sleep, or even in the arms of one of her many lovers. She is dead. And the unpleasant task of finding her killer is handed to overworked, crime-weary police detective Pierre 'Grazzi' Grazziano, who would rather play hide-and-seek with his little son than cat and mouse with a diabolically cunning, savage murderer. With corpses turning up everywhere, the question becomes not only who is the killer, but who will be the next victim . . .

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