by Joseph Wambaugh · FRANCE LOISIRS / PRESSES DE LA CITE · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724222098
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«Soleils noirs» is the crime novel by Joseph Wambaugh, published by France Loisirs / Presses de la Cité in hardback (211 pages, in French).
The plot begins with the fatal fall of Missy Moonbeam, a prostitute, from the roof of a seedy hotel. The case connects a Caltech phone number, a dead private detective and a useless credit card, and ends up involving a Russian Whisky-class submarine and the Nobel Prize.
The original English work is titled «The Delta Star» and dates from 1983; the present French edition is from 1985.
For readers of noir fiction, crime and police thriller, with a tone that combines police investigation and humour.
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
