by Sébastien Japrisot · Bruguera. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402084170
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«El tren de la muerte» is the crime novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Bruguera in paperback (80 pages, in Spanish).
At the end of the journey, the train inspection reveals a macabre discovery: the strangled corpse of a woman in a berth. Shortly after, the passengers of that compartment begin to be eliminated one by one. The police, with no leads to follow, investigate a series of murders that seem to have no explanation.
Volume 31 of Bruguera's Club del Misterio collection, with translation by Fco. Javier Gispert Trías and illustrations by Julio Vivas. The original work, «Compartiment tueurs», was published in 1962.
Recommended for readers interested in mystery, crime and French fiction, with a closed police investigation plot.
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.
