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1030 From Marseilleby Sebastien JaprisotISBN 1860464408 (1-86046-440-8)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '1030 From Marseille'Book summary:An apparently motiveless murder carried out on a train after its arrival in Paris is followed by a series of ruthless killings in the French capital. The only thing these crimes have in common is that all the victims travelled north that night in carriage IV of the 10:30 train from Marseille. [via]
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Goodbye, Friendby Sebastien Japrisot , Patricia Allen DreyfusISBN 055208705X (0-552-08705-X)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gunby Sebastien JaprisotISBN 1860464394 (1-86046-439-4)
Softcover, Random House
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- The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun: ISBN 0552083178 (0-552-08317-8)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun: ISBN 0285500767 (0-285-50076-7)
Hardcover, Souvenir P. - The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun: ISBN 1860464394 (1-86046-439-4)
Softcover, Random House
- The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun: ISBN 0552083178 (0-552-08317-8)
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The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gunby Helen Weaver, Sebastien JaprisotISBN 0452277779 (0-452-27777-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun'Book summary:A classic noir suspense novel back in print. Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there. [via]
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One Deadly Summerby Sebastien JaprisotISBN 014005846X (0-14-005846-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Deadly Summer'Book summary:The classic noir suspense novel by the bestselling author of A Very Long Engagement. Part love story, part mystery, and part parable on the nature of evil and the porous fabric separating the victim from the victimizer, One Deadly Summer tells the compelling story of a cunning young woman's plan to avenge a crime committed against her family. [via]
One Deadly Summerby Alan Sheridan, Sebastien JaprisotISBN 0452277809 (0-452-27780-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Passion of Womenby Sebastien Japrisot , Roz SchwartzISBN 051756940X (0-517-56940-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Sleeping-Car Murdersby Sebastien Japrisot , Francis PriceISBN 0452277787 (0-452-27778-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Trap for Cinderellaby Sebastien Japrisot , Helen WeaverISBN 0452277795 (0-452-27779-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trap for Cinderella'Book summary:A suspicious beach house fire in southern France traps two young women. One dies. One survives, but is burned beyond recognition and left with amnesia. Plastic surgery gives her a pretty new face, but who is she, really? Killer or victim? Winner of France's most prestigious crime-fiction award, TRAP FOR CINDERELLA is an engrossing tour de force by a master of mystery and deception. [via]
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A Very Long Engagementby Sebastien JaprisotISBN 1860463614 (1-86046-361-4)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Very Long Engagement'Book summary:January 1917: five French soldiers are marched to their own front lines where they will be tossed out into no man's land with their hands tied behind their backs and left for the Germans to shoot. They were, in civilian life, variously a pimp, a mechanic, a farmer, a carpenter, and a fisherman; now they are condemned because each had sought to leave the war by shooting himself in the hand. Taken to a godforsaken trench nicknamed Bingo Crépuscule, the five are reluctantly sent out into the darkness; days later, five bodies are recovered and the families are notified, merely, that the men died in the line of duty.
August 1919: Mathilde Donnay receives a letter from a dying man. In it, the former soldier tells her that he met her beloved fiancé, the fisherman Manech, shortly before he died. Mathilde goes to meet Sergeant Daniel Esperanza at his hospital and there hears the story of the execution. She also receives a package with a photograph of the men and copies of their last letters. As Mathilde reads and rereads the letters and goes over Esperanza's tale, she begins to suspect that perhaps the story didn't end quite so neatly. And so begins her very long investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of five condemned prisoners--one of whom, at least, might not really be dead.
In Mathilde Donnay, Sebastien Japrisot has created one of the most compelling and delightful heroines in modern fiction. Though confined to a wheelchair since childhood, "Mathilde has other lives, varied and quite beautiful ones." She paints, cares for her pets, enjoys a rich fantasy life, and is relentless in her search for the truth about Manech's death. But she is by no means the only vibrant personality leaping off Japrisot's pages. This author has a remarkable ability to draw even minor characters in three dimensions with economy and wit. Take Mathilde's mother, for instance, caught in mid-card game: "At bridge, manille, bezique, Mama is a dirty rotten swine. Not only is she an ace with the pasteboards, but she throws her opponents off their mettle by insulting or making fun of them." And even the characters we meet only through other people's memories--the condemned men--are so fully realized that you find yourself torn over which one you hope may have survived. As Mathilde comes ever closer to solving the mystery of what happened at Bingo Crépuscule that January morning in 1917, Sebastien Japrisot proves himself a master storyteller and A Very Long Engagement a near perfect novel. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- A Very Long Engagement: ISBN 0099474549 (0-09-947454-9)
Softcover, Random House - A Very Long Engagement: ISBN 0312424582 (0-312-42458-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Very Long Engagement: ISBN 0002713152 (0-00-271315-2)
Hardcover, Random House - Very Long Engagement: ISBN 000654813X (0-00-654813-X)
Hardcover, Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited - A Very Long Engagement: ISBN 0002713306 (0-00-271330-6)
Softcover, Random House - A Very Long Engagement: ISBN 0452272971 (0-452-27297-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - A Very Long Engagement: ISBN 0374283354 (0-374-28335-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - A Very Long Engagement: ISBN 1860463614 (1-86046-361-4)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
- A Very Long Engagement: ISBN 0099474549 (0-09-947454-9)
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Women in Evidenceby Sebastien Japrisot , Ros SchwartzISBN 0452281628 (0-452-28162-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Evidence'Book summary:Sebastien Japrisot loves a mystery. In his award-winning World War I tale, A Very Long Engagement, he sent his beguiling heroine Mathilde Donnay on a high-stakes scavenger hunt to discover which of five condemned French soldiers--one of them her fiancé--may have evaded execution. Women in Evidence, Japrisot's sixth novel, set in the years following World War II, chronicles another woman's search for answers about her lover's fate. This time his death is not in question, but the identity of his killer certainly is. For this young man--is his name Vincent or Beau-Masque, Tony or Francis or Christophe?--has had many lovers, and each one, it seems, has good reason to want him dead. Rashomon-like, Japrisot reveals the victim's life from many different perspectives. First, a young bride recounts how she was kidnapped on her wedding night by an escaped convict named Vincent whom she shoots when he rejects her. Next, a prostitute named Belinda discovers a young man named Tony bleeding in the kitchen of her brothel; he tells her he has assumed the identity of her ex-lover in order to help him escape from prison. Caroline, a schoolteacher, relates how an escaped prisoner named Eddie broke into her house, an event that triggers some pretty torrid fantasies in this repressed widow's brain. Eight women in all, with eight different takes on this mysterious young man. And though each tale differs significantly from the others, a few salient details carry over from story to story: a spurned bridegroom left in his pajamas by the side of the road; the murdered daughter of a powerful man; a prison break. Yet the accounts differ so radically--whom is the reader to believe?
The women's testimony is being collected by Marie-Martine Lepage, a lawyer and one of the dead man's many loves who is trying to clear his name of a terrible crime. Her notations appear frequently in earlier chapters, commenting on, critiquing, and occasionally contradicting what the other women have said. Is she a narrator we can rely on? Perhaps not. In her own chapter, Marie-Martine informs us:
I am writing by the glow of a red light on my ceiling that stays on all night. It was a hard battle before they let me have a pencil and paper. They claim my condition deteriorates when I delve back into this affair. But who else could tell the rest of it?
So when she tells us that "his real name was in fact Christophe," can we really believe her? In Women in Evidence, Japrisot has accomplished two things: He has given distinctive voice to eight very different women, and in doing so he has crafted an intriguingly labyrinthine plot that will have you reading the final pages more than once as you try to unravel the puzzling tangle of contradictory evidence. And like the obstinate young man whose death lies at the heart of the tale, this novel is not entirely what it seems. Beneath its mystery-genre veneer is a smart and original meditation on the mutable boundaries of passion and the extremes to which love can lead. --Alix Wilber [via]
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