An Expensive Place to Die
Putnam (US) | |
Publication date | 1967 |
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| Pages | 254 |
An Expensive Place to Die is a 1967 novel by Len Deighton. It is set initially in Paris and takes its title from an Oscar Wilde quotation about the said city. ("Dying in Paris is a terribly expensive business for a foreigner.") The action concerns the shady dealing and possible expensive pimping of one Monsieur Datt against a background of espionage. This is the fifth novel in the "unnamed hero" series, but unlike the previous ones, it includes chapters and sections in the third person.[2]
Plot
The
truth drug by Datt and then drives an ambulance
containing the films to Ostend. Despite having caused her father Datt's death, at the narrator's suggestion she is let go.
References
- ^ Modern first editions - a set on Flickr
- ^ Author's introduction to the HarperCollins edition, London, 2012