Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery **AWARD WINNER**

Vargas, Fred

ISBN 10: 0143112163 / ISBN 13: 9780143112167

Published by Penguin, N.Y., 2007

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1st ed. A near fine copy of the trade paperback. [ no US hardcover edition] WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DUNCAN LAWRIE INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD. Three wounds in a perfectly straight line was the bloody signature that marked victims from every corner of France who had been murdered over the course of thirty years. Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement, is deeply and personally familiar with the case, and though others were always framed and convicted for these crimes, including his own brother, the Commissaire knows the true identity of the killer and knows that the murderer died in 1987. All the more disturbing, then, is Adamsberg's discovery one morning of a fresh murder with exactly the same profile.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery **AWARD WINNER**
• Publisher: Penguin, N.Y.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143112163
• ISBN 13: 9780143112167
• Binding: Pictorial Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • PyB 5
  • Award Winner
  • France
  • Mystery and Detective
  • Paperback

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Synopsis

“Wildly imaginative.”—The New York Times

“Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action.”—Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series

Three wounds in a perfectly straight line was the bloody signature that marked victims from every corner of France who had been murdered over the course of thirty years. Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement, is deeply and personally familiar with the case, and though others were always framed and convicted for these crimes, including his own brother, the Commissaire knows the true identity of the killer—and knows that the murderer died in 1987. All the more disturbing, then, is Adamsberg's discovery one morning of a fresh murder with exactly the same profile...

About the Author

Fred Vargas is a French medieval historian and archaeologist who has a parallel career as a bestselling crime novelist. She adopted the pseudonym from her twin sister, an artist who works as Jo Vargas—after Ava Gardner’s character in The Barefoot Contessa. She has published ten mysteries, five of which feature Commissaire Adamsberg. Her detective fiction is published in 32 languages.