Shovelling Clouds
Adam Mars-Jones: Fred Vargas, 23 April 2015
Temps glaciaires
by Fred Vargas.
Flammarion, 490 pp., €19.90, March 2015,978 2 08 136044 0 Show More
by Fred Vargas.
Flammarion, 490 pp., €19.90, March 2015,
“... in the 1920s and 1930s was primitive in its sexual psychology, never more so than in the novels of John Dickson Carr. Carr, a naturalised American, could ventriloquise British understatement almost too well, as his biographical note on the back of vintage green Penguins demonstrates, noting his ‘slight difficulty that during the blitz our house was twice ... ”