Henri Castang mysteries
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A dressing of diamond , Henri Castang mysteries volume 1
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The bugles blowing , Henri Castang mysteries volume 2
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Sabine , Henri Castang mysteries volume 3
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 4
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English
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A British judge and a naked corpse put French inspector Henri Castang on delicate, dangerous ground in this mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author.
When a local businessman's car is stolen, he's more concerned about what's inside-the body of his just-deceased grandmother. Then Parisian police Insp. Henri Castang is called to investigate the mysterious appearance of a woman's body found in a car. But just when it seems like his latest case...
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 5
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English
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When a local official is gunned down in the street, it looks like a cold-blooded political assassination. But as Inspector Henri Castang investigates-and questions the victim's colleagues and family-it seems the motive might have been closer to home. The mystery only becomes more tangled when the official's son turns up dead. What is this family involved in that has cost them two lives already? Castang must sort through secrets, blackmail, and lies...
6) Wolfnight
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 6
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English
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From an Edgar award–winning British crime novelist, an Inspector Castang thriller that "has it all-politics, sex, metaphysics" (The New York Times).
It's a quiet night at the Police Judiciare in Detective Castang's provincial corner of France when a prominent politician stumbles in, claiming he was in a car accident he can barely recall, with a passenger who is his mistress-and is very likely dead. But when the unorthodox inspector's astute investigation...
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 7
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English
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From an Edgar award–winner, a shrewd French detective investigates murder in "a meditative, dark, ironic installment in the unconventional Castang series" (Kirkus Reviews).
Two violent murders one after another in a provincial district in France is more than enough to agitate the astute mind of Inspector Henri Castang. Especially since the first was so gruesome-he suspects the corpse has been cannibalized. The second killing leads him to a teenage...
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 8
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English
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From an Edgar award winner, French Inspector Castang investigates cases close to his personal life in a mystery rich with "penetrating character sketches" (Kirkus Reviews).
It seems there's no escape from crime for Police Commissaire Henri Castang. While in Munich with his wife, he becomes embroiled in a child custody case that suddenly turns sinister. Once back at home, Castang is faced with the mysterious disappearance of a friend's wife, along...
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Cold iron , Henri Castang mysteries volume 9
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 10
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English
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"That artful master of the international policier . . . delivers another one of his uncommonly intelligent procedurals with Inspector Henri Castang." -The New York Times
When Police Commissaire Henri Castang is summoned to investigate a missing hotelier, he's not alarmed at the young widow's disappearance. Until a routine inquiry on the hotel's last guest reveals him to be a Jewish artist and concentration camp survivor who never checked in to...
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Those in peril , Henri Castang mysteries volume 11
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Flanders sky , Henri Castang mysteries volume 12
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13) You who know
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 13
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English
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"An acknowledged master . . . writes with heart and unfailing intelligence" in this meditative Inspector Castang mystery about sexual obsession and love (Publishers Weekly).
When Inspector Henri Castang is asked to investigate the death of a colleague and friend, an Irishman whose erratic behavior raises questions about his involvement in the I.R.A., Castang travels through Europe in search of answers. What the detective discovers is a very different...
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 14
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English
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From an Edgar award–winning crime author, a mystery featuring unorthodox detective Henri Castang as he hunts for a kidnapper in the Czech Republic.
It's every mother's nightmare-their child abducted. But for Anita Rogier, whose son has been missing for four years, a glimmer of hope shines into her dark world when she receives a call that convinces her he is alive. But with few believing her claims, she needs a detective who is able to take the...
15) A dwarf kingdom
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 15
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996
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English