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What Are the Bugles Blowing For?

Nicolas Freeling

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English
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
18 September 2024
From an Edgar Awardwinning British crime novelist, this unsettling homicide investigation features the unorthodox French detective Henri Castang.

On a sultry summer night in a French provincial city, Insp. Henri Castang is summoned from his office at the Police Judiciaire to the site of a triple murder. The killer? A husband who came home unexpectedly to discover his wife and daughter in bed with another man. A crime of passion? Perhaps. Except the murderer in question, wealthy financier Gilbert La Touche, is cool and remote. His confession is as factual and bloodless as the crime is violent and deeply disturbing. As a detective, Castang must play by the rules to protect himself. But for an unconventional cop like Castang, that is virtually impossible. After all, there's more to murder than a few corpses and a killer, and Castang will follow every twist until he gets to the heart of the evil at hand.

Praise for Nicolas Freeling

""Nicolas Freeling... liberated the detective story from page-turning puzzler into a critique of society and an investigation of character."" -The Daily Telegraph

""Freeling rewards with his oblique, subtly comic style."" -Publishers Weekly
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Imprint:   Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   Volume 2
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 25mm
ISBN:   9781504092784
ISBN 10:   1504092783
Series:   The Henri Castang Mysteries
Pages:   262
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nicolas Freeling (19272003) was a British crime novelist best known for the Van Der Valk detective series. After serving in the military and working as a hotel and restaurant cook throughout Europe, he began writing his first novel, Love in Amsterdam, while serving a three-week sentence for stealing food from the restaurant where he worked. Freeling's novel King of the Rainy Country received the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Among his other literary awards are the Gold Dagger from the British Crime Writers Association and France's Grand Prix de Roman Policier.

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