V dalším příběhu Freda Vargase (pseudonym vystudované historičky a archeoložky) se opět setkáváme s detektivem Adamsbergem, který se po vraždě mladé dívky stává dokonce hlavním podezřelým. Temnou roli tu sehrál alkohol a opilecké okno… Autorka si ve čtvrtém Adamsbergově případu vyhrála i s jazykovou komikou, vyvolanou odlištnostmi kanadské a evropské francouzštiny, kterou do češtiny skvěle převedla překladatelka Kateřina Vinšová.
A major new celebration of the French short story 'Nowhere have I witnessed real happiness, but surely it is to be found here...' The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are decadent tales, 'bloody tales', fairy tales, detective stories and war stories. They are stories about the self and the other, husbands, wives and lovers, country and city, rich and poor. The first volume spans four hundred years, taking the reader from the sixteenth century to the 'golden age' of the fin de siècle. Its pages are populated by lovers, phantoms, cardinals, labourers, enchanted statues, gentleman burglars, retired bureaucrats, panthers and parrots, in a cacophony of styles and voices. From the affairs of Madame de Lafayette to the polemic realism of Victor Hugo, the supernatural mystery of Guy de Maupassant to the dark sensuality of Rachilde, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old. Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.
A kind but seemingly paranoid old lady turns to Inspector Maigret for help. Against the judgement of his subordinates, he decides to pay a visit to her Parisian apartment to investigate, but is he already too late?--Provided by publisher.