The Bloody Streets of Paris by Tardi, Jacques [and] Leo Malet. Art Spiegelman, foreword - 2003

E-046: Ibooks. Very Good. 2003. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. IBooks, New York. 2003. 192 pgs. Illustrated throughout. Wrappers worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present (rear wrapper lightly curled and worn). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In order to fulfill a dying man's plea, detective Nestor Burma finds himself quickly enmeshed in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal involving French collaborators and the terrifying all-powerful Gestapo. It will take all his skills as a detective to say alive and free, for in Nazi-held France, there are fates worse than death. The Bloody Streets of Paris is a classic detective story set against the Nazi occupation of Paris. Newly discharged from a WWII prisoner of war camp, Nestor Burma finds himself unraveling a convoluted mystery surrounding the death of an associate. The fast-paced, tightly plotted story is suspenseful and gripping. But the genius in The Bloody Streets… Read More