Murder In Memoriam by Didier Daeninckx
In a demonstration in Paris in 1961, hundreds of Algerians are killed by the police. During the demonstration, Roger Thiraud, a young history teacher, is murdered. Twenty years later, Bernard, his son, is murdered in Toulouse. To find the connection between the murders takes Inspector Cadin on an investigation into the shabby compromises of wartime politics. Winner of the 1984 Detective Fiction Prize, Murder in Memoriam is an impressive debut by the leading light of the new wave of French thriller writers.
?Murder in Memoriam is the kind of book that begins to restore one?s confidence in the detective story? Nick Hornby
Didier Daeninckx is a novelist, magician and archeologist princeHe unlimbs French moral and political life in Murder in Memoriam. His hero, Inspector Cadin, is both catalyst and seer into the past: the crime he solves is nothing less than the trick of an entire culture to create its own selective amnesia... Daeninckx has written a frightening book * Jerome Charyn *
Captures the smell of cowardly assassination carried out for the basest of all motives, extremism revealed as self-interest, political corruption, and the stoking of racial prejudice to achieve political ends... Murder in Memoriam serves as a tap on the shoulder - a necessary reminder that what is dead is not buried, and what is buried is, unfortunately, not dead * Derek Raymond *
Didier Daeninckx is a novelist, magician and archeologist princeHe unlimbs French moral and political life in Murder in Memoriam. His hero, Inspector Cadin, is both catalyst and seer into the past: the crime he solves is nothing less than the trick of an entire culture to create its own selective amnesia... Daeninckx has written a frightening book * Jerome Charyn *
Captures the smell of cowardly assassination carried out for the basest of all motives, extremism revealed as self-interest, political corruption, and the stoking of racial prejudice to achieve political ends... Murder in Memoriam serves as a tap on the shoulder - a necessary reminder that what is dead is not buried, and what is buried is, unfortunately, not dead * Derek Raymond *
Born in 1949, Didier Daeninckx lives in Paris. Recognised as France's leading left-wing mystery writer, his work is translated into all European languages. His 1984 novel Murder in Memoriam forced the French government to try Nazi collaborators, led to a life of imprisonment for Paul Touvier and made President Mitterrand declare 16 July a day of national reflection on fascism and racism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852422066 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852422068 |
| Title | Murder In Memoriam |
| Author | Didier Daeninckx |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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