La colombe noire (FICTION) (French Edition)

Newspapers and books would be sold together at a reasonable, fixed price. The readership knew what to expect from the motto of the series: Each 15th of the month a new such novel would be published, that usually followed the conventions of popular fiction. The total number of books in this series is Out of these, only around 8 are written by non-French authors British or American: A special Christmas edition of the newspaper, from The cover design of the series is typical for rather cheap paperbacks, using the strategy of illustrating a pivotal point of the narrative Fig.

The font of the titles varies with the content of the books and cover illustrations, while the title of the series and the motto are placed in the top central part of the cover. Another series published in the same period was dedicated to crime fiction, as the name reveals: It was published by Ig. The 15 lei series, i. There is some uncertainty regarding these two collections, as it is possible they might have merged into one at some point in the s. One of the first Romanian crime fiction novel was published in in the former series: The case of Mrs.

The second edition sold between During the communism area, another Aventura series was published by Tineretului and Albatros publishing houses.

There is no recognizible connection with the interwar series, neither in terms of book cover design, nor content. Both international and Romanian authors were published in this series, which was a collection on its own and not a periodical magazine as before. This contributed to the overall homogeneous aspect of the series, the design of which was very modern and forward-thinking for the time.

After the series was transferred to Albatros Fig. Keeping the small version of the previous design is both an economical and symbolic decision, since the series were very popular with the public and this was the way of keeping the readership throughout the transition of the editorial project.

Colorful and minimalistic book cover design of the series as it was first published by Editura Tineretului. The most successful and renowned crime fiction series of the communist period and may still be well-known to this day is Enigma , published by Univers Publishing House from to This series never matched the fame and readership acclaim of the original one.

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The covers of some of the most famous titles of the communist Enigma can be viewed at https: As crime and spy novels began as yellow paper-backs in most European countries, yellow and bright colors orange, green remained one of the visual ways to inform the reader, even unconsciously, about the nature of the contents of the book. This can be seen in the cover design of the previous series, but it is fully-fledged in Enigma Fig.

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However, one of the things that set apart the design of this series is the changing of the font of the title according to some symbolic connotations of the contents of the book or even according to the length and phonetics of the title. The most recurrent color is, by far, yellow, followed closely by orange, mustard, green and pink. An anthology of crime fiction short stories was also published in this series, in two volumes that can be seen in the top right picture below.

The design of these is distinct from the rest of the series, while in keeping with the overall ratio and aspect of the covers square lines, central illustration, title box in the lower half of the cover. This collection was among the lengthiest ones, counting 89 titles, 15 of them published in , the numbers decreasing rapidly.

From to only 5 volumes were published in a year. During he last years , only one volume was published per year. Only international authors were published, out of which the most numerous ones were soviet authors, particularly during the period approximately. There is no distinguishable correspondence between the background colors and the nationality of the author or the fictional contents of the books.

Neither is there a recurrent, constant pattern of the colors, the order of which is hazardous, yellow and orange accounting for more than a third of the covers.

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The first volume of soviet crime fiction published there was only the 31 st of the series, in , three years after the collection started. All the volumes published subsequently in were written by Soviet writers, as follows: Braghinski, Joe Alex, K. This period corresponds to a wave of censorship and sovietization of the whole book industry, as well as the literary products themselves. Eugen Negrici identifies four distinct chronological attitudes towards literature during communism, that are especially prevalent in the writing, commercializing and reading of prose: Clement Vanquer is wanted for murder because he was seen playing outside the apartments of two Parisienne women who were killed.

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The musician is lying low with Marthe, an ex-prostitute who happens to be friends with Kehlweiler. Pre-order now on Amazon. Low Heights takes us to a mountain village, where elderly Edouard Lavenant has moved with his nurse, Therese. As the cover suggests, vultures will be circling above in the latest by an author who some claim is the heir to Georges Simenon. Homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are called to the scene when a horror movie producer is murdered. Her eyes have been removed, but Isles is stumped as to cause of death and when another victim is found a couple of days later, she again struggles at the autopsy.

Dark and deadly secrets are behind the deaths, but is the one person who can unravel the mystery willing to spill the beans?

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