Léo Malet
Né à Montpellier le 7 mars 1909, Léo Malet est poète surréaliste avant d'inventer en 1943, avec 120, rue de la Gare, le détective Nestor Burma — figure centrale des Nouveaux Mystères de Paris, cycle de quinze romans policiers où chaque enquête se déroule dans un arrondissement différent de la capitale. Il meurt à Paris le 3 mars 1996, cinq arrondissements n'ayant jamais été traités, la maladie l'ayant contraint d'interrompre la série.
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Léo Malet
Pas de bavards à la Muette
Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, (June 25) 1956.Set in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, the novel is the eighth in Léo Malet's Nouveaux Mystères de Paris, a cycle of fifteen detective novels published between 1954 and 1959. It features his signature detective, Nestor Burma, created in 1943 in 120, rue de la Gare. Each novel is set in a different arrondissement of…Sold
Léo Malet
Micmac moche au Boul’ Mich’
Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, (December 20) 1957.The novel, set in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, is the thirteenth of the Nouveaux Mystères de Paris, a cycle of fifteen crime novels published by Léo Malet between 1954 and 1959. It features his signature detective, Nestor Burma, created in 1943 in 120, rue de la Gare. Each novel is set in a different…Sold
Léo Malet
120, rue de la gare
Paris, Editions S.E.P.E., coll. « Le Labyrinthe », (November) 1943.Sold
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