by David Bellos (Translator), Fred Vargas (Author), David Bellos (Translator), Fred Vargas (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0099453649
ISBN 13: 9780099453642
Book Overview: 'A delicious Parisian chiller' Boyd Tonkin, Independent