Mark Hebden, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5690-9
Fans of crotchety, chain-smoking Chief Inspector Pel (Pel and the Faceless Corpse) will enjoy his ninth case. An educated, semi-retired gangster and his bodyguard are murdered and very soon Pel and his detectives know how, when and by whom. But they
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Mark Hebden, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5720-3
Fans of Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel ( Pel Among the Pueblos and Pel and the Pirates ) will welcome this latest mystery. On the eve of national elections local Deputy Claude Barclayart collector, hero of Dien Bien Phu and patron of...
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Mark Hebden, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-312-02628-8
Fans of the Burgundian Chief Inspector Pel will savor his latest struggle with the underworld in the British author's 13th droll, mazy mystery. Settled with his new wife, happy with the company of a neighbor child, Yves, Pel sinks back into gloom...
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Mark Hebden, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-312-05491-5
The police procedurals following Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel as he pursues the criminals of Burgundy are unusually fine in their illumination of modern French character and mores. Last seen in Pel and the Picture of Innocence , Pel...
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Mark Hebden, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-312-06441-9
Bad humor is raised to a fine art by French Chief Inspector Pel, who in more than a dozen books ( Pel and the Party Spirit ) has shown a liking only for his rich wife, Gauloises and anything Burgundian--to him, Burgundy ``wasn't a province of France,
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Mark Hebden, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-312-08872-9
The French atmosphere is as thick as Brie as land speculators threaten the previously untouched province of Burgundy in Hebden's 16th mystery to feature the long-suffering Chief Inspector Pel ( Pel and the Party Spirit , et al.). A rash of arsons,...
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Mark Hebden, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-09893-3
Sadly, this is likely to be the final outing for crafty Burgundian curmudgeon, police inspector Evariste Pel, since Hebden ( Pel and the Promised Land ; Pel Under Pressure ) died in 1991. Here the acerbic, dogged chief inspector, who is passionately
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