The Murdered House (Vintage Crime)

The Murdered House (Vintage Crime)

by PierreMagnan (Author)

Synopsis

One dark night in the winter of 1896, in remote upper Provence, a family is brutally massacred. Only a three-week-old baby miraculously survives. In 1920, the orphan, S-raphin Monge, finally returns home from the war to pursue the truth. Haunted by the image of his mother's dying moments, he turns on the house that has seen such misery, destroying it stone by stone. As the walls crumble, the killers' identities are laid bare and his anger turns to vengeance. But for every murder S-raphin plots, another hand silently executes it in his place.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Nov 2003

ISBN 10: 0099448726
ISBN 13: 9780099448723
Book Overview: 'Unputdownable' Independent 20030303

Author Bio
Pierre Magnan was born in Manosque in 1922 and has rarely left his native Provence. In 1943, during the Occupation, he fought with the Resistance in the Isere, and in 1946 he published his first novel, L'Aube Insolite. During his lifetime he published over twenty novels, four of which have so far been translated into English. He died in May 2012, at the age of 89.