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In order to fulfill a dying man's plea, detective Nestor Burma finds himself quickly enmeshed in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal involving French collaborators and the terrifying all-powerful Gestapo. It will take all his skills as a detective to say alive and free, for in Nazi-held France, there are fates worse than death.
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He is France's answer to Raymond Chandler's PHILIP MARLOWE, Leo Malet's NESTOR BURMA, detective. Richly visualised by Jacques Tardi, Malet's mystery comes to life as a black-and-white movie on paper through the illustrations of one of the world's foremost comic artists. But Burma is more than just Marlowe in a beret. Nestor lives a precarious existence in a time and a place that few have dared to touch - namely, France during and just after World War II. Nestor is the owner and sole operator of the Fiat Lux Detective Agency in Paris, in a France very much under the thumb of the Nazis and the Vichy regime. And Marlowe thought Bay City was bad! Burma appeared in almost thirty novels, including an interesting series within a series called "les Nouveaux Mysteres de Paris," comprising fifteen novels, each one devoted to a Paris district.
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- Publisheribooks Inc
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0743474481
- ISBN 13 9780743474481
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade PB. 4to. IBooks, New York. 2003. 192 pgs. Illustrated throughout. Wrappers worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present (rear wrapper lightly curled and worn). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In order to fulfill a dying man's plea, detective Nestor Burma finds himself quickly enmeshed in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal involving French collaborators and the terrifying all-powerful Gestapo. It will take all his skills as a detective to say alive and free, for in Nazi-held France, there are fates worse than death. The Bloody Streets of Paris is a classic detective story set against the Nazi occupation of Paris. Newly discharged from a WWII prisoner of war camp, Nestor Burma finds himself unraveling a convoluted mystery surrounding the death of an associate. The fast-paced, tightly plotted story is suspenseful and gripping. But the genius in The Bloody Streets of Paris is its depiction of wartime Paris. The Nazi occupation flips the Parisian life on its head. Their familiar surroundings are suddenly ominous and fraught with danger. It's with this looming presence as a backdrop that Burma attempts to solve the mystery. French illustrator Jacques Tardi adapted The Bloody Streets of Paris to graphic novel form. Born at the end of World War II, Tardi heard stories of both world wars from his grandparents. His grandparents' stories greatly marked the illustrator as a child. In an interview for a French periodical he explained, "What interests me [about war] is daily life: how do people continue from one day to next under such conditions?" Tardi's black and white illustrations brilliantly evoke the gritty urban atmosphere of forties' Paris. E-046; 11.8 X 8.8 X 0.4 inches; 192 pages. Seller Inventory # 58843
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Set of 5 Graphic Novels (in English) by Tardi - 1. The Bloody Streets of Paris, 2. Roach Killer, 3. Adele and the Beast 4. The Demon of the Eiffel Tower, and 5. The Secret of the Salamander
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