ARGONAUT BOOKS

30-year-old Albert returns to Paris after six years away, during which time his mother has passed away, to find himself entangled in a complicated case centred around a woman he met at a restaurant whose husband's body appears in her lounge, but then disappears almost inexplicably. Reviews "A tense and yearning tale set in a Paris suburb during the 1960s. . . . In "Bird in a Cage" , nobody is quite as they seem to be . . . Dard is a consummate hoodwinker: As you read along, there are apparent incongruities of plot and characterization. But like the waiter who magically whips...Read More