by Sébastien Japrisot · FOLIO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070365630
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«Compartiment tueurs» is the crime novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Folio in paperback (256 pages, in French).
A passenger on a night train discovers that a woman has been strangled in her compartment. From then on, the travelers in that car are killed one after another, and the investigation turns every occupant into a suspect. In a confined space where paranoia grows, any detail can be decisive in unmasking the culprit.
Number 563 in the Folio collection. French edition of 1974; the novel was originally published in 1962.
For readers of crime fiction and classic suspense, with an atmosphere of a confined space on a night train.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
