Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge: A Nestor Burma Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (930 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 160699705X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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While Burma has chosen to move onto the (more or less) straight and narrow as a private eye, his friend had stayed on the other side of the law as a counterfeiter and worse, until his own past caught up with him lethally. This is the first of Jacques Tardi’s four major graphic novel adaptations of legendary French crime writer Léo Malet’s original “Nestor Burma” novels in this one, Burma avenges the death of an old anarchist friend. Paris, 1950s. So now it’s up to Malet to avenge his friend, and hopefully unravel a mystery whose roots run far and deep back into the past Black & white.. In this graphic novel adaptation, Nestor Burma’s past comes knocking when Bélita, a young woman, leads him to the Salpetriere hospital, where he discovers the recently deceased Abel Benoît, an old buddy from his anarchist days
His Adele Blanc-Sec series was adapted into a feature by Luc Besson, and he was behind the recent animated film April and the Extraordinary World. His comics are award winning (including the U.S.'s Eisners). He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats.Léo Malet (1909-1996) was a prolific and revered French crime novelist and surrealist. . Jacques Tardi is a pioneering Europea
"Can't wait for the next three in the series" according to Duane Swierczynski. I loved this one -- it's moody, funny, cruel and deep. And the ending will stun you. My only complain is that I don't have a stack of Léo Malet books waiting for me; very few have been translated into English.
asking for help. It is 1955 Paris, and Burma, a former teenage anarchist, receives a cryptic note and a plea for help from Abel Benoit, an older anarchist companion from his past. . Burma's anarchist background provides some political color to what is essentially a competent but conventional detective story. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly French cartoonist Tardi, creator of the irascible turn-of-the-century Parisian sleuth Adele Blanc-Sec, has joined forces with French detective writer Malet in a black-and-white adaptation of Malet's popular detective Nestor Burma. His wry exchanges with the police inspector are mildly