While books about anti-racism are trending on Goodreads and dominating the bestseller lists right now, some of our favorite Black authors are a...Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. The following is an exclusive excerpt from The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun, by Sébastien Japrisot.Originally published in France in 1966, and translated into English shortly thereafter by Helen Weaver, it tells the story of the mysterious Dany Longo, who takes her boss's car for a quick ride and finds a dead body inside. Start by marking “The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun” as Want to Read: I rest my case.....)Didn't like this one as much as "One Deadly Summer" or "Trap For Cinderella", but still a corker.

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A classic noir suspense novel back in print. "Lady/Car/Glasses/Gun" has about 100% more thriller ingredients, but equally full to the brim with first-person reflexive psychological insights, someone (actually, a couple of someones) confessing to themselves what a horrible thing they've done, what a horrible person they are.

His mysteries are incredibly clever! I was pleased to find it once again! A tragic love story following Woods, a successful artist, after the death of his beloved wife and exploring the effects his crippling grief has on his two young sons. The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun ist ein Thriller aus dem Jahr 2015 von Joann Sfar mit Freya Mavor, Benjamin Biolay und Elio Germano.. I didn't remember how things all worked out and, for many years, I could not find a copy in print or a copy to borrow. What led to her predicament is as much as mystery to her as it is to the reader: trying to piece together the increasingly Kafaesque chain of events that led to her predicament, she tools around the south of France in someone else’s Thunderbird, with one eye on the road, the other over her shoulder. She knows she's driving south from Paris, so she continues on her way.

Liked the story from Dany’s side but less so that of Mr CaravailleAfter viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. The main character Dany is in a situation where she is not sure if she is coming unhinged or being conned. End is confused. A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers. I was completely baffled by this and I just had to keep on reading. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. In “Lady … His mysteries are incredibly clever! The main character Dany Longo works at an advertising agency where one day she is asked by her boss to do a rush job on an account that has to be presented the next day to some Swiss clients. She agrees to work late at his house and even to drive him and his wife & kid to the airport the next day. Not for one second did I see the ending coming. The others are noncommittal about what they saw. Though worried, she continues to allow Georges to travel with her. I'm still absolutely in love with this book.I read this book a couple of years ago and could not put it down. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. The plot is astoundingly contrived, in the way many books of this flavor are, but when dSome time back I read Muriel Spark's "The Driver's Seat", which has some distant thematic and aesthetic resemblances to this book. A secretary takes her boss's car for the holiday in the Mediterranean, oddly retracing a journey she has not taken, and is recognized by people she has not met before.
The resolution could never really live up to the set up, and doesn't, but it's still a great thriller.To reduce it to the most basic plot, it is the story of Dany, a beautiful blonde woman who decided to take a spontaneous trip, but along the way is told she has been to every location she has visited before. I notice Amazon lists it new for $45, but you can get used copies in various shape for the price of shipping. Regardless it is a cracking tale film noir style.

When she points out that the handwriting is not hers, the receptionist says her injured wrist may have prevented her from signing. What a great start to the book. When Georges learns Dany has two rooms reserved in her name, he ingratiates himself into the second room. Is she the naïve victim of a conspiracy, or is she herself a killer? As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.

Ce n'est pas facile.Such a great story! Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Japrisot falls to the mystery novel trap of building up an immensely intriguing and suspenseful narrative that he has to then tear apart clumsily in the last 30 pages to explain himself.