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HTML:From an Edgar Award–winning British crime novelist, this unsettling homicide investigation features the unorthodox French detective Henri Castang. On a sultry summer night in a French provincial city, Insp. Henri Castang is summoned from his office at the Police Judiciaire to the site of a triple murder. The killer? A husband who came home unexpectedly to discover his wife and daughter in bed with another man. A crime of passion? Perhaps. Except the murderer in question, wealthy show more financier Gilbert La Touche, is cool and remote. His confession is as factual and bloodless as the crime is violent and deeply disturbing. As a detective, Castang must play by the rules to protect himself. But for an unconventional cop like Castang, that is virtually impossible. After all, there's more to murder than a few corpses and a killer, and Castang will follow every twist until he gets to the heart of the evil at hand. Praise for Nicolas Freeling "Nicolas Freeling . . . liberated the detective story from page-turning puzzler into a critique of society and an investigation of character." —The Daily Telegraph "Freeling rewards with his oblique, subtly comic style." —Publishers Weekly. Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. show lessTags
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En ¿POR QUÉ SUENAN LAS CORNETAS?, el inspector Henri Castang recibe una llamada telefónica que le anuncia un triple asesinato. Para protegerse a sí mismo ante el cariz que toma el asunto, deberá seguir las rígidas reglas del procedimiento judicial con escrupulosa exactitud... Y eso es muy difícil para Castang, ya que en su caso y a diferencia de la mayoría de los policías, los criminales y sus víctimas son algo más que una manera de ganarse la vida... Freeling demuestra una gran habilidad en presentar una galería de personajes absolutamente verosímiles, algunos de los cuales llegan a hacerse entrañables.
Oct 23, 2022Spanish
En ¿POR QUÉ SUENAN LAS CORNETAS?, el inspector Henri Castang recibe una llamada telefónica que le anuncia un triple asesinato. Para protegerse a sí mismo ante el cariz que toma el asunto, deberá seguir las rígidas reglas del procedimiento judicial con escrupulosa exactitud... Y eso es muy difícil para Castang, ya que en su caso y a diferencia de la mayoría de los policías, los criminales y sus víctimas son algo más que una manera de ganarse la vida...
Freeling demuestra una gran habilidad en presentar una galería de personajes absolutamente verosímiles, algunos de los cuales llegan a hacerse entrañables.
Freeling demuestra una gran habilidad en presentar una galería de personajes absolutamente verosímiles, algunos de los cuales llegan a hacerse entrañables.
Feb 19, 2011Spanish
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Novelist Nicolas Freeling was born in London on March 3, 1927. After serving in the military and working as a cook, he began his first novel, Love in Amsterdam, while in prision for theft. He is best know for his Piet Van der Valk dective stories which inspired two television series. He also created the Henri Castang series and wrote numerous show more individual novels. He received the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for The King of the Rainy Country. He also won the Gold Dagger from the British Crime Writers Association and France's Grand Prix de Roman Policier. He died on July 20, 2003 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- What are the Bugles Blowing For?
- Alternate titles
- The Bugles Blowing
- Original publication date
- 1975
- People/Characters*
- Henri Castang
- Important places*
- ?, Frankreich
- Original language*
- English
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