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Authors: Fred Vargas
âThe day before yesterday, in the evening?'
âYes, why?'
âWhat happened?'
âAn old Polish man, aged ninety-two, ran her over. She went under the front wheels of his car.'
Lucio thought, and rolled the bottle across his mouth.
âJust like that?' he said, gesturing with his only fist.
âJust like that,' Adamsberg said.
âLike the tanner, with his bare hands.'
Adamsberg smiled and picked up his antlers.
âStands to reason,' he punctuated.
FRED VARGAS
was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now an internationally bestselling author.
SIÃN REYNOLDS
is a historian, translator, and former professor at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
VINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 2009
Copyright © 2006 Ãditions Viviane Hamy, Paris
English translation copyright © 2008 Siân Reynolds
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Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2009. Originally published in hardcover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2008, and simultaneously in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, a division of the Random House Group Ltd., London. Originally published in France under the title
Dans les bois éternels
, in 2006, by Ãditions Viviane Hamy, Paris. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Vargas, Fred
This night's foul work / Fred Vargas; translated from the
French by Siân Reynolds.
(The Commissaire Adamsberg series)
Translation of: Dans le bois éternels.
I. Reynolds, Siân II. Title. III. Series: Vargas, Fred. Commissaire
Adamsberg series.
PQ2682.A697D3513 2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 843â².914Â Â Â Â Â C2008-903679-4
eISBN: 978-0-307-36612-2
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