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Have Mercy on Us All: Commissaire Adamsberg

Fred Vargas (Author)

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • 400 Page / Published 2004-07-10
  • Category: Fiction , Crime & Detective
  • ISBN: 9780099453642
  • Language: English
  • Format: PB
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Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of the French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. She is the daughter of Philippe Audoin, a surrealist writer who was close to André Breton, and the....

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Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box. Over the course of a few days he receives a number of disturbing and portentous messages of malicious intent, all of them referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared on the doors of several buildings: symbols once used to ward off the plague. Detective Commissaire Adamsberg begins to sense a connection, even a grotesque menace. Then charged and flea-bitten corpses are found. The press seizes on their plague-like symptoms, and the panic sets in.