> Do all the Daeninckx books you listed feature Rene
Griffon? I've only
> recently heard of him, and I'm trying to compile a
list of his work.
Rene Griffon appears only in _Le Der des Ders_. Daeninckx's
only=20
recurring character is inspector Cadin. Cadin is a very
engaging=20
character, whose investigations (like most of Daeninckx's
mysteries)=20
revolve around various French locales and forgotten bits of
French recent=
=20
history :
- Mort au premier Tour (1982)
- Meurtres pour M=E9moire (1984)
- Le G=E9ant inachev=E9 (1984)
- Le Bourreau et son double (1986)
He also briefly appears in Lumi=E8re noire (1987), as a PI.
All these bo=
oks=20
have been published in the famous _Serie Noire_.
Daeninckx, as someone else noted, is very engaged politically
(like many
other French mystery authors). IMHO, he's the best French
writer of the
'80s-'90s, and one the few French writers I collect. The
others are Leo
Malet, G.-J. Arnaud, Serge Brussolo, Frederic
Dard/San-Antonio, Emmanuel
Errer/Jean Mazarin, Michel Jeury, and that's about it. All
are very
prolific 'genre' (mystery/sci-fi/thriller) authors.=20
Laurent
_______
"I'll read any private eye book and love it." (After Fred
Willard)
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