Murder Chez Proust

By Estelle Monbrun

Book Overview

When Adeline Bertrand-Verdon, the self-appointed directress of the Marcel Proust Association, is found murdered on the eve of the society's annual convention, Inspector Jean-Pierre Foucheroux is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559702834
• ISBN13: 9781559702836
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Agatha-esque quality

This is a good Agatha Christie style mystery, though I was able to correctly determine the guilty party halfway through the book (something I fail to do when reading Poirot...so this should provide for you a good gauge of the book's mystique). What is remarkable about this book, and what I think was omitted above in the reviews, is that it was written by the real life editor of The Friends of Marcel Proust and Combray society's bulletin, Elyane Dezon-Jones. Her descriptions of Proust's home make you feel like you are really there. When this book was first published, in French, it caused a stir amoung the Society's members, most notably with association's real life Secretary. Can you guess who the book's first murder victim was...?