Authors and Creators
Alain Demouzon
(1945-- )

In 1975 with Mouche, French author Alain Demouzon began a series of novels which were more than a tribute to Raymond Chandler. A medium town, wet and cold, a private investigator, fifty years old and disenchanted; an old lady who is in search of her granddaughter: this is the beginning of the story which seems to be trite , but Demouzon is a wizard of writing . He knows how to create an atmosphere ( à la Simenon) and his plot is strange and spellbinding...

Alain Demouzonthen went on to write twelve more detective novels from 1976 to 1984 (alas, only two more with a PI). After that he vanished from the field of the detective story for several years, until 1984-85 when three collections of short stories (whodunnits) , originally written for various newspapers were published. And then he made a comeback in 1994 with a book published in La Serie Noire.

NOVELS

• Mouche (1975; feauring PI Robert Flécheux) ...Buy this book
• Le premier né d'Egypte (1976; translated as "The First Born of Egypt")
• Un coup pourri (1977; featuring PI Nicolas Placard; translated as "A Rotten Deal")
• Le retour de Luis (1977)
• La pêche au vif (1978)
• Mes crimes imparfaits (1978)
• Adieu La Jolla (1978; featuring PI Nicolas Placard; translated as "Farewell La Jolla")
• Monsieur Abel (1979)
• Section rouge de l'espoir (1979)
• Quidam (1980)
• Bungalow (1981)
• Chateau des rentiers (1982)
• Paquebot (1983)
• Dernière station avant Jerusalem (1994)

COLLECTIONS

• Les enquêtes du commissaire Bouclard: Le complot du café rouge (1984)
• Le crime de la porte jaune (1985)
• Le mystère du dragon noir (1985)

RELATED LINKS

• Alain Demouzon
  Le site officiel (en français, of course). But does include a page in English...

Compiled by Marcel Bernadac.