Compartment Killers

2 hrs. 46 min.

Audio Plays, Radio Productions & Literary Readings

Language Russian

Author Sébastien Japrisot

Narrators Dmitry Polonsky, Alexandra Ravenskikh, Alexander Livanov

Narrator Dmitry Polonsky

Narrator Alexandra Ravenskikh

Narrator Alexander Livanov

Description

This is Japrisot's first detective novel, published in 1962. It already displayed all the distinctiveness of the master of French detective fiction's creative style, characterized by a striving to go beyond the "canons" of the genre. Having begun the novel with a classic detective opening — a young woman's corpse is found in a train compartment arriving from Marseille to Paris — the author "entrusts" the solving of the crime to a chance fellow traveler of the victim, a young man who has run away from home and is wanted by the police.