by Donald E. Westlake · Rivages · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782743613273
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«La Mouche du coche» is the crime novel by Donald E. Westlake, published by Rivages in paperback (240 pages, in French).
Aloysius Eugène Engel joins the mob to follow in his father's footsteps. Becoming the right-hand man of boss Nick Rovito, he must dig up a colleague buried in a jacket stuffed with heroin; the coffin is empty and the corpse has vanished. A criminal intrigue with black humor.
Originally published in 1962 as Busy Body, this 2004 edition belongs to the Rivages/Noir collection (no. 536) and includes the revised translation by N. Shklar.
For readers of classic crime fiction and mob stories told with black humor.
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hardboiled Parker, and John Dortmunder, who featured in a more humorous series.
