Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1973 (English Translation), 1^st American Edition, 2^nd pr.  ISBN 0-15-144430-7.  Hard cover, 160 pages.  Very good; green cloth with pink and gilt foil lettering on spine; small dents on lower rear edge; binding sound with a slight lean; small spot on top edge.  Dust jacket with price intact has very short spine edge tears with one tiny tear at top repaired on verso.  Book interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  The wife of a well-to-do jeweller is run over by a truck and killed.  ‘The circumstances of her death, however, trigger doubts in his mind.  What was Annette, a social worker, doing on the street where she was killed?  None of her clients lived on Rue Washington, in one of the most elegant parts of Paris.  Why did the police act strangely and secretively?  His subsequent investigations lead to some startling discoveries that shed new light upon Annette’s enigmatic behavior in the past.’ (from front flap)