Crush
By: Frédéric Dard ; translation, Daniel Seton
Contributors: Seton, Daniel (Translator), translator
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781782271987
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Scélérats
Description: Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of colour, good humour and easy living in drab 1950s Léopoldville, and soon Louise is working there as a maid. But once she is under her new employers' roof their model life starts to fall apart - painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear and a dark obsession begins to grow, which will end in murder ...
Notes: "A sultry tale of suspense and murder"--Cover.

Translation from French as Les scelerats.

Originally published in French as: Les scélérats. Paris : Fleuve Editions, 1959.