Pel and the Party Spirit (Inspector Pel Mysteries) [Paperback]

Mark Hebden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2001 | Series: Inspector Pel Mysteries

Brigade Criminelle is mobilised when a fatal stabbing, an anticipated delivery of lethal drugs from Marseilles, and the discovery of a thirty-year-old corpse in an ancient turreted tower in the town of Puyceldome coincide with a frantic search for two murderous hitchhikers, all on Chief Inspector Pel's patch. And as folk-dancers, stilt-walkers, fire-eaters, and jugglers lurch through a night of carnival, Pel stalks his prey.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The police procedurals following Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel as he pursues the criminals of Burgundy are unusually fine in their illumination of modern French character and mores. Last seen in Pel and the Picture of Innocence , Pel and his men here suffer the August blues while the rest of France, it seems, is on vacation, when a 30-year-old corpse is discovered in a tower in the ancient town of Puyceldome, which is preparing to draw tourists to its 730th anniversary festivities. At the same time, a motorist is found stabbed to death in the woods near a highway. The body in the tower is linked to a shipment of gold coins missing since an attempted coup against De Gaulle; the motorist may have been killed by two teenaged girls armed with butcher knives. As the investigations continue, a policeman is killed and a young girl kidnapped, and the threads of all the cases draw Pel back to Puyceldome in the midst of its celebration. In Pel and his men, Hebden has created a likable lot, in each volume revealing a little more about their private lives and the politics of provincial France.
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About the Author

John Harris, who also wrote under the pen names of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling The Sea Shall Not Have Them. He was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier, a cartoonist and a history teacher. During the Second World War he served with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, Harris wrote adventure stories and created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky fictional character Chief Inspector Pel. A master of war and crime fiction, his enduring novels are versatile and entertaining.

Product Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: House of Stratus (September 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1842329049
• ISBN-13: 978-1842329047
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #462,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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