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The Yellow Queen, by Joseph Macé-Scaron: the ghosts of Roquebrune

2024-03-28T10:36:41.662Z

Highlights: The Yellow Queen, by Joseph Macé-Scaron: the ghosts of Roquebrune. A new investigation by gendarme Guillaume Lassire and archivist-paleographer Paule Nissen. It was in this town that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was last seen. According to chatty local residents at aperitif time, France's most famous missing person has been seen again in various forms, notably that of a shoeless Carmelite.


CRITICAL - A new investigation by gendarme Guillaume Lassire and archivist-paleographer Paule Nissen. Facetious.


Roquebrune-sur-Argens is a town on the Mediterranean coast renowned for its wines, its pine trees, its old stones… and its ghosts. It was in this town that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was last seen. According to chatty local residents at aperitif time, France's most famous missing person has been seen again in various forms, notably that of a shoeless Carmelite.

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The Yellow Queen

, it is endowed with the qualities of an examiner that the ghost seems to have entered the municipal library to annotate and correct a biographical story which was dedicated to him. At least for those who believe in ghosts. Recently transferred to the Var after making sparks in Seine-Maritime (See

La Falaise aux suicides

published in the same collection in 2022), gendarmerie captain Guillaume Lassire is a logical mind. He doesn't believe it.

Sentimental and macabre

However, here he is assailed from all sides. Because the placid Pandora must also investigate a ghost hitchhiker who claims...

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