The messengers of death a mystery in Provence
Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to solve the bizarre murder of a Mlle. Veronique Champourcieux who is discovered pinned to her own piano by a bayonet attached to an ancient rifle.
| Main Author: | Magnan, Pierre, 1922- |
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| Other Authors: | Clancy, P. A. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
New York :
Thomas Dunne Books,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to solve the bizarre murder of a Mlle. Veronique Champourcieux who is discovered pinned to her own piano by a bayonet attached to an ancient rifle. |
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| Physical Description: |
311 p. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780312387563 (alk. paper) 0312387563 (alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: |
Pierre Magnan is an award-winning French crime writer. Death in the Truffl e Wood was his first Commissaire Laviolette mystery to be published in the United States; the third, The Murdered House , is forthcoming from Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur. |