by Fredric Brown · EDITIONS PAC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782853360685
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La chandelle et la hache» is the suspense and crime novel by Fredric Brown, published in 1978 by Editions PAC in paperback (314 pages, in French).
The story follows Joe Bailey, a young man marked by a childhood trauma related to a rhyme and a fire, as he tries to find his way in postwar Chicago. The narrative combines psychological realism with the film noir atmosphere and uses a structure that includes screenplays and short stories.
Originally published in English as «Here Comes a Candle», this French edition is part of the Red Label collection from Editions PAC.
For lovers of noir fiction and classic crime literature; the Red Label collection brings together great names of the genre.
Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. One of his stories, "Arena", was adapted into a 1967 episode of the American television series Star Trek.
