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Originalmente publicadas por separado, estas tres nouvelles ponen de nuevo en escena al infalible comisario Adamsberg, inmerso esta vez en los bajos fondos y en el inquietante y oscuro mundo de los clochards de la capital francesa.

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El fantasma de una monja del siglo XVIII que degollaba a sus víctimas, cadáveres de vírgenes profanados, pociones mágicas que aseguran la vida eterna, un rival del pasado más remoto que habla en verso... Con todo esto se encontrará el comisario Adamsberg en esta inquietante y negrísima novela.

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Un extraño club de admiradores de Robespierre, viejos rencores familiares, pistas falsas, reminiscencias de antiguos mitos nórdicos;, y la imbatible sagacidad del comisario Adamsberg y su brigada son los ingredientes de esta magnífica intriga.

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El comisario Adamsberg tendrá que enfrentarse a una terrorífica leyenda medieval normanda, la del Ejército Furioso: una horda de caballeros muertos vivientes que recorren los bosques tomándose la justicia por su mano...

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Baudoin retrata el París de Fred Vargas

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Encuadernación: RústicaEl comisario Adambersg se halla en Londres invitado por Scotland Yard para asistir a un congreso. Un hecho macabro alertará a su colega inglés: frenta al antiguo cementerio de Highgate han aparecido diecisiete zapatos con sus respectivos pies dentro, cercenados. Mientras comienza la investigación, la delegación francesa regresa a su país y allí descubre también un horrible crimen en un chalet en las afueras de París: un anciano periodista especializado en tmas judiciales ha sido, a primvera vista, triturado. El comisarios, con la ayuda de Danglard, relacionará los dos casos, que le harán seguir una pista de cazadores de vampiros que le conducirá hasta un pequeño pueblo de Serbia...

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Encuadernacion: RústicaLos cuatro ríos es la historia del encuentro entre dos universos: la novela y el cómic. Pero, sobre todo, es la historia del encuentro entre dos autores. Por un lado, Fred Vargas, una creadora de éxito internacional que escribe novela negra, y por otro, Edmond Baudoin, un veterano autor referente en la renovación de la nueva BD francesa. Fred Vargas ha escrito un guión y Baudoin lo ha puesto en imágenes, con un trazo ligero que capta como nadie el alma de los personajes. Y la historia? Simplificando podría decirse que es una novela policíaca. Con todos sus ingredientes: crimen, investigación, sospechoso inquietante. Y también un comisario:el célebre Adamsberg, procedente de las novelas de Vargas. Pero sobre todo es una historia de seres humanos, poblada de personajes aferrados a su singularidad. Singularidad que puede tomar la forma de una escultura de Bernini reconstruida con chapas y latas de cerveza Los cuatro ríos, realizado a cuatro manos, en un diálogo p

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‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, rapists, those with serious crimes on their conscience, meeting a grisly end following a visitation by the riders. Soon after the young woman’s vision a notoriously vicious and cruel man disappears. Although the case is far outside his jurisdiction, Adamsberg agrees to investigate the strange happenings in a village terrorised by wild rumours and ancient feuds.

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Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person, the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help.History repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman he had met. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence.Winner of the 2007 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for The Three Evangelists.

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*Featured in The Times top ten crime novels of the decade*THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVELShortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene.Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland.How are these deaths, and rumours of an Icelandic demon, linked to a secretive local society? And what does the mysterious sign mean? Commissaire Adamsberg is about to find out.

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** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain' ANN CLEEVESAfter three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.It isn't long before Adamsberg is investigating a series of rumours and allegations that take him to the south of France. Decades ago, at La Miséricorde orphanage, shocking events took place involving the same species of spider: the recluse.For Adamsberg, these haunting crimes hold the key to proving that the three men were targeted by an ingenious serial killer. His team, however, is not convinced. He must put his reputation on the line to trace the murderer before the death toll rises..._______________________PRAISE FOR THIS POISON WILL REMAIN:'Absorbing... Full of twists and spiced with Vargas's characteristic wit and style' PETER ROBINSON'Vargas is an addictive writer whose surreal touches create a curiously solid world' INDEPENDENT'Vargas's books are...cunning, corkscrew murder mysteries' A.J. FINN

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On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered several of her patients has escaped from prison. Is there a connection between the three cases?In this mystery, Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against nemeses past and present: Ariane Lagarde, France's foremost pathologist and Adamsberg's enemy since they argued over a case twenty-three years earlier, and Louis Veyrenc, a new recruit with a grudge, who has been assigned the job of protecting the Commissaire's ex-girlfriend. As the different strands of Vargas's compelling story begin to intertwine, events move towards a gripping climax...Shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.

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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.

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In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves. Disturbing things have been happening up in the French mountains; more and more sheep are being found with their throats torn out. The evidence points to a wolf of unnatural size and strength. However Suzanne Rosselin thinks it is the work of a werewolf. Then Suzanne is found slaughtered in the same manner. Her friend Camille attempts, with Suzanne's son Soliman and her shepherd, Watchee, to find out who, or what, is responsible and they call on Commissaire Adamsberg for help.'Ingenious. Slick, creepy and full of engaging odd characters, this thriller is a class act' Independent

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Winner of The Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International DaggerJean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop.When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, only Adamsberg takes them - and the increasingly bizarre objects found within them - seriously. And when the body of a woman with her throat savagely cut is found in one, only Adamsberg realises that other murders will soon follow…‘The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction’ Guardian

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clément Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartments in question, it seems like an open-and-shut case.Desperate for a chance to prove his innocence, Clément disappears. He seeks refuge with old Marthe, the only mother figure he has ever known, who calls in ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler.Louis is soon faced with his most complex case yet and he calls on some unconventional friends to help him. He must show that Clément is not responsible and solve a fiendish riddle to find the killer...

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