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Having said that, it is a surprise that Dard had the time to look back at what he had written as I suggest, for he knocked out a whopping 300 thrillers in his writing career, by some accounts. But look back at this he did – it started out as a play of his, that he adapted for the cinema, before changing it a lot to make this novel. The creative zest of the man must have been singularly eminent. A lot of this book has that same, slightly haphazard, pell-mell thrust, which is to its benefit in the end – despite my issues here and there this is a strong entertainment. I have it in the back of my mind that I read it decades ago, but this is a brand-new-for-2016 translation, and it's a great thing to have it newly on the shelves for people to discover.

This same series also has his [[Bird in a Cage by Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)|Bird in a Cage]], which is a superior novel – to many, in fact.