Frédéric Dard

French novelist and playwright best known for the San-Antonio crime series starring Commissaire San-Antonio; a prolific author of hundreds of books under his name and various pseudonyms, noted for inventive wordplay and slang.

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  1. 1. Bird In A Cage

    On a bleak Christmas Eve in Paris, a man newly returned to his old neighborhood meets an enigmatic woman and her child in a bustling department store, only to be drawn back to her apartment and into a nightmare involving a corpse, shifting alibis, and vanishing evidence. As he staggers through a maze of lookalike rooms, coincidences, and calculated misdirection, he begins to doubt his own perceptions. What starts as a chance encounter becomes a meticulous trap that exploits his past and the season’s anonymity, tightening until a stark, noir twist snaps everything into cruel focus.

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  2. 2. The Executioner Weeps

    A solitary man rescues an amnesiac woman after an accident and, as he nurses her back to health, becomes dangerously obsessed. As fragments of her identity resurface, shadows from her past close in, pulling them into a web of fear, jealousy, and crime. What begins as a tender attempt at salvation spirals into a fatal tangle of passion and betrayal, culminating in a bleak reckoning neither can escape.

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