Bird in a cage
By: Frédéric Dard ; translated from the French by David Bellos
Contributors: Bellos, David, translator
Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781782271994
Subjects: Ex-convicts; Murder; Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Work titles: Monte-Charge
Description: 30-year-old Albert returns to Paris after six years away, during which time his mother has passed away, to find himself entangled in a complicated case centered around a woman he met at a restaurant whose husband's body appears in her lounge, but then disappears almost inexplicably.
Notes: Translation from French of: Le Monte-Charge.

"First published in French as Le Monte-Charge in 1961"--Title page verso.

"Crime/Mystery 11"--Page 4 of cover.

Translated from the French.