Goupi Red Hands is a bucolic loner, slow, shrewd, self-sufficient, and devoted to his existence in harmony with his rural life. He despises his family's secretive, small-minded, mean lives in deepest 1930s agricultural France. When a close relative arrives from Paris to marry a cousin, another family member is murdered. Goupi investigates, and uncovers the murderer in a dramatic denouement. This is a Gallic romp, amusing, and filled with unusual detail on French country life.

Goupi Red Hands

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Véry, Pierre

Mystery

Troubador Pub

Goupi Red Hands in Paris

Troubador Publishing

Pierre Véry's gripping mystery The Murder of Father Christmas involves a double murder and a double theft of precious stones from a church in a small town in Lorraine in the midst of a snowstorm around Christmas time. Despite the absence from the story of the peasant-sleuth Goupi Red Hands, the hero of Alan Grimes's previous translations of Véry, a racy and highly readable version is provided here of a fine example of the French roman noir.

The Murder of Father Christmas

Literature & Fiction

[This book is written in French] Un pensionnat aux allures de manoir hanté... L'insomnie d'un élève, Mathieu Sorgues, alias le No 95, le conduit une nuit au repère des Chiche-Capon, la bande dont il fait partie. En salle de sciences naturelles, seul veille le squelette Martin... Le lendemain, le No 95 disparaît. A boarding school that resembles a haunted house...The insomnia of a student, Mathieu Sorgues, alias No. 95, leads him one night to the den of the Chiche-Capon, the gang to which he belongs. In the natural sciences laboratory, only Martin, the skeleton, keeps watch... The next day, No. 95 disappears.

Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (Collection Alphee) (French Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

iUniverse

The Secret of the Pointed Tower

Crippen & Landru, Publishers

LES DISPARUS DE SAINT-AGIL

Children's Books

GALLIMARD JEUNE

L'ASSASSINAT DU PERE NOEL

Disparus de Saint Agil (Folio Junior) (French Edition)

Gallimard Education

L'assassinat du Père Noël

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