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There is the matter of a man who ate his way through a wardrobe and another who chewed through a small airplane. And there is the alarming question of feet cut off at the ankle, wearing shoes and trying to hobble into an ancient cemetery.
Murder by Type : AN UNCERTAIN PLACE – Fred Vargas (January 14, 2012)Fred Vargas writes police procedurals that are always a bit off center.
In AN UNCERTAIN PLACE, Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is in London attending an international police conference.
The Washington Post : ‘An Uncertain Place,’ by Fred Vargas (November 01, 2011)In the novel’s opening lines, Adamsberg is ironing his shirt — something no other cop has done in the hundreds of crime novels I’ve read — and preparing to leave for a conference in London. He is delayed by his neighbor, an elderly, one-armed Spaniard who insists that the policeman help his cat give birth to kittens. (Another first.)
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