Henri Castang Books

Stated first U.S. edition bound in lavender cloth and boards. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Mild dust soiling to the dust jacket's spine and rear panel. The first Henri Castang mystery.

1st EDITION NEARLY FLAWLESS COPY EX LIBRARY NEVER IN CIRCULATION HAS A FEW SMALL LIBRARY MARKINGS ON THE FIRST FEW PAGES SHIPS SAME DAY WR1

When the talented French detective Henri Castang learns more about the wealthy, elderly poet Sabine Arthur, he realizes that her family may indeed be plotting to kill her

A Henri Castang Mystery - An intriguing case presents itself to Castang where assassination and terrorism are the order of the day. A deputy mayor is murdered and his family, friends and colleagues are all suspects. In this pulsing mystery, Freeling lets loose a quirky, inventive crime fiction that should taunt and tease.

Inspector Henri Castang's investigation into a gruesome, cannibalistic murder leads him to a lovely young prostitute whose activities conceal sinister crimes and to ruthless political machinations, power ploys, and intrigue

Police Commissaire Henri Castang is pressed to his wit's end by three cases involving his own past, a romantic double suicide, and a friend's wife's disappearance

A Henri Castang Mystery - A rich aristocrat is found murdered and Henri Castang is called in to investigate. What he reveals is a startling series of discoveries. The murdered woman, Madame Lecat kept herself occupied with drink, cocaine and affairs of the heart. But what is more shocking is the corruption Castang finds swarming beneath the veneer of high society.

A Van der Valk thriller A rollicking drama of satire, humour and suspense. Can you afford to miss it? Guy Lefevre is a successful landscape gardener. He and his wife Sibille drive through the winding heights of the Vosges Mountains but at the end of a long day, they have a blistering argument and Sibille gets out of the car, never to be seen again. What happened in those mountains? Arlette Van der Valk, Sibille's ex-neighbour, is suspicious and teams up with Henri Castang to prove foul play.

Sent to the north of France to investigate the disappearance of middle-aged hotelier Adrienne Sergent, Inspector Henri Castang stumbles into a case involving an elderly Jewish painter, the fatal bombing of a local convent, and an erratic journalist

A new mystery featuring French police commissaire Henri Castang

For Inspector Castang, life in the cosmopolitan setting of Brussels proves more than either he or Vera bargained for. When his boss is arrested for murder and a child abuser becomes a crime statistic, Castang realizes that crime is universal--and his skills as an investigator are as revelevant in the corridors of power as in the back alleys of Paris.

Henri Castang finds police investigation dangerous when an old friend and Irish bureaucrat is shotgunned, but his wife gets the answers by pursuing questions his police-cohorts would never think to ask.

Checking on an apparent runaway case, Brussels-based Inspector Henri Castang learns the missing boy's identity and his connection to a former SS officer, prompting Castang to launch a full-scale kidnapping investigation.

For two decades Henri Castang has carved out a unique position in the annals of detective heroes. Nicolas Freeling's charismatic creation is a cop at heart, a bureaucrat by circumstance, a man forged in the fires of war-torn Europe who finds himself coping with a new European "community." Now, in Freeling's stunning new novel, Henri Castang makes his final appearance... It begins in a lovely garden at a lovely house in Bruxelles: an act of inexplicable brutality that leaves Castang and his wife, Vera, staggered and adrift, cut loose from the ties that held them to their life at the headquarters of the European Community. Coincidently, Castang's former boss in the Paris Police Judiciaire unexpectedly names Vera in his will, leaving her his Biarritz retirement house overlooking the Bay of Biscay. There, the couple finds they have inherited both the property and the last case of an aging but brilliant policeman. Castang doesn't see it coming until it is too late. A powerful white-collar criminal who had been under investigation by Castang's former chief covets the house and land where Castang and Vera have come to live. To get it now, this man whom Castang calls prince of a dwarf kingdom has resorted to the most terrible of tactics. Castang and his family are plunged into a nightmare of kidnapping. Following his instincts and his evidence, Castang ventures into an underground of criminals and lost souls. To do battle with the dwarf prince directly, Castang takes on the most unlikely of allies: a clan of terrorists and a beautiful killer called the Tigress...