The French detective writer Frédéric Dard, who has died of a heart attack aged 78, was a prolific novelist, whose work was compared to that of Georges Simenon and who was acclaimed as a "magician" ...

The French have a certain way with crime. Famously, during the postwar years, French authors and auteurs took the hard-boiled style of Americans like Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond ...

If you have been on X (formerly Twitter) lately, you have probably scrolled past a cryptic declaration like, “Two of the five Dard-e-Disco cities are now under the caliphate.” The post, made by ...