Description

When a man found stabbed to death in a gutter in a town in France turns out to be a missing convict, a dogged police inspector launches an investigation that turns up long-buried secrets about the dead mans beautiful daughter and her hot-tempered American husband.

Set in 1931 and written in the style of Georges Simenon, This is the first volume of Ariel S. Winters extraordinary debut novel, The Twenty-Year Death.