HOW CAN YOU CATCH A KILLER WHO DOESN'T EXIST?

It seems like an impossible crime. A husband and wife shot by an intruder in their elegant Paris apartment. The door bolted - from the inside. And no murderer.

Private Detective André Brunel is confounded, but it is only the start of his troubles. Across the city and beyond, more bodies are discovered... And each time the culprit vanishes into thin air.

As the hunt for the phantom murderer intensifies, Brunel finds himself outwitted at every turn by his deadly adversary. Has the master detective finally met his match?



Pierre Boileau (1906-89) was a renowned crime writer, best known for the disorienting psychological thrillers he penned with Thomas Narcejac, including Vertigo, famously adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock. Six Crimes Without a Murderer was written by Boileau alone, before his collaboration with Narcejac. First published in 1939, it introduces the ingenious detective André Brunel and is considered a timeless classic in the field of the locked room mystery. Vertigo is also available from Pushkin Vertigo.



Louise Rogers Lalaurie is a writer and translator from French, whose translations include Frédéric Dard's The King of Fools and The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabuçon, both published by Pushkin Vertigo. Her work has been shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature and the Crime Writers Association International Dagger.