by Jean Ray · J'ai Lu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782277301707
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«La Bande de l'araignée» is the crime novel by Jean Ray featuring Harry Dickson, published by J'ai Lu in paperback (128 pages, in French).
The book brings together two investigations of Harry Dickson, nicknamed the American Sherlock Holmes: «La Bande de l'araignée» and «Les spectres bourreaux». In them, the detective faces the criminal Georgette Cuvelier, whose plans threaten the security of several European states.
This edition was published in 1997, belongs to the Librio Littérature collection and reproduces the complete text.
For readers of classic crime fiction and fans of the character Harry Dickson.
Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Joannes de Kremer, a prolific Belgian (Flemish) writer. Although he wrote journalism, stories for young readers in Dutch by the name John Flanders, and scenarios for comic strips and detective stories, he is best known for his tales of the fantastique written in French under the name Jean Ray. Among speakers of English, he is famous for his macabre novel Malpertuis (1943), which was filmed by Harry Kümel in 1971. He also used the pseudonyms John Flanders, King Ray, Alix R. Bantam and Sailor John, among others.
