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| René Reouven |
As usual with these
author pages, this is intended to be both a bibliography and a directory to my
reviews as they appear. However, it turns out that coming up with a
bibliography for René Reouven is tricky business. He hasn’t got any website or
anything of the sort, which is where one might expect to find a bibliography.
There is an entry on Wikipedia with a bibliography, but it is strangely
incomplete, missing several books. Several bibliographies are online, but many
of them are “selected bibliographies”. I’ve done my best to compile as complete
a bibliography as I can, but I expect I’ve made some omissions and possibly
some errors. If you spot either/or, please let me know and I’ll fix it as soon
as I can.
As René Reouven
Romans policiers
Octave II (Second Octave)1965
Les Humeurs fatales (The Fatal Humours) 1968
Mort au jury (Death to the Jury) 1969
L'Assassin maladroit (The Awkward Murderer) 1970
Monsieur Josué (Mr. Joshua) 1971
Six personnages en quête de meurtre (Six Characters in Search of a
Murder) 1972
Le Bouton du mandarin (The Mandarin’s Button) 1976
Le Quidam et la mort (The Individual and Death) 1976
Les Confessions
d'un enfant du crime (The
Confessions of a Child of Crime) 1977
Tobie or not Tobie (Tobias or not Tobias)
1980
Reouven rewrites the Biblical Book of Tobit... as a mystery! Tobit, an elderly man, is blind, and despairs that his son Tobie is
twenty and unmarried. So he sends Tobie to Media to collect a large
sum of money he loaned to a cousin named Gabael. And while he’s there,
there’s a nearby town where a young woman named Sarah lives. She’s
twenty years old, beautiful, and unmarried! So
Tobit hires a guide for Tobie, a man named
Azariah. On the way, Azariah and Tobie seperate, and Tobie comes to Sarah's house. There, he witnesses several eerie events before learning that Sarah has been married seven times previously... but each time, before the marriage can be consummated, the demon Asmodeus killed the bridgeroom under impossible circumstances!
Grand-père est mort (Grandfather is Dead) 1983
Un tueur en Sorbonne (A Killer at the Sorbonne) 1984
La raison du meilleur est toujours la plus forte (The Best One’s Will is Always the Strongest) 1986
Récits de la troisième brigade (Stories of the Third Squad) 1990
Faites-les taire (Silence Them) 1991
Voyage au centre du mystère (Journey to the Centre of a Mystery) 1995
Voyage au centre du mystère (Journey to the Centre of a Mystery) 1995
César
Brunel has but one goal in life: become rich. Fortunately he has a rich uncle, Charles, who can be targeted for murder. But how to pull this off without being suspected? César uses the happy coincidence of his uncle's family name (Loupian) to hatch a plan: he will become a serial killer and recreate a series of murders that inspired Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. He leaves notes beside his victims that say: "Souvenez-vous de Monte-Cristo" (Remember Monte Cristo), reasoning that this will distract the police into looking for a motive of vengeance... and thus the hunt is on, as César finds himself in a cat-and-mouse game with his uncle Charles and the police.
- This review is a crossover review, written in collaboration with Xavier Lechard of At the Villa Rose.
La vérité sur la Rue Morgue (The Truth on the Rue Morgue) 2001
Un trésor dans l’ombre (A Treasure in the Shadow) 2011
Sherlock Holmes Stories
This is a most unusual Holmesian novel, one in which Sherlock Holmes never appears. Nevertheless it is heavily inspired by Holmes and its plot would have been impossible without him. Here, Reouven postulates the survival of the first draft of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This is a manuscript of such concentrated evil that it turns anyone who reads it into a murderer. The novel follows the manuscript from owner to owner in reverse chronological order... culminating with the reveal of its first owner, better known to the world under his nickname: Jack the Ripper!
- Originally published under the pen name "Albert Davidson", derived from Reouven's second name (Albert) and his father's name (David).
L'Assassin du boulevard (The Boulevard Assassin) 1985
Le Bestiaire de Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes’ Bestiary)
1987
Of the untold tales of Sherlock Holmes, some of the most fascinating references involve animals -- unfortunately we never got to hear Dr. Watson's take on these adventures. The most famous of these is perhaps the giant rat of Sumatra. Well, Reouven's take on the Rat is in this collection, as well as the affair of the trained cormorant, the mysterious worm unknown to science, and the red leech. Three of these stories are narrated by Holmes itself, and the other story is set during WWI. In other words, they're somewhat unusual pastiches. Although the stories collected here are individual stories, they tie into each other in unexpected, and often surprising, ways!
Of the untold tales of Sherlock Holmes, some of the most fascinating references involve animals -- unfortunately we never got to hear Dr. Watson's take on these adventures. The most famous of these is perhaps the giant rat of Sumatra. Well, Reouven's take on the Rat is in this collection, as well as the affair of the trained cormorant, the mysterious worm unknown to science, and the red leech. Three of these stories are narrated by Holmes itself, and the other story is set during WWI. In other words, they're somewhat unusual pastiches. Although the stories collected here are individual stories, they tie into each other in unexpected, and often surprising, ways!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is sick and tired of the comparisons made between Sherlock Holmes and C. Auguste Dupin. So he sends his detective back in time (via H. G. Wells' time machine) to Paris in the 1830s. Their mission is to discover whether Poe ripped his story from the headlines, and if so, who was the real-life Dupin? After wrapping things up on the Parisian end, Holmes and Watson are then sent to America, shortly after Poe's death. They investigate the man's untimely death and determine the cause of death, the meaning of the great man's final ramblings, as well as unearthing a surprising connection to the Mary Rogers murder case...
A collection of literary mysteries, each story is dedicated to an author. In the first story, dedicated to Josephine Tey, Holmes finds himself investigating the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. In the second story, dedicated to John Dickson Carr, Holmes investigates the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca, a notorious anti-Semite found dead inside a locked Jewish library. The third story is dedicated to Thomas De Quincey, and it involves Holmes' investigations of the peculiar persecutions levelled towards a tobacconist.
Le drame ténébreux qui se déroula entre les frères Atkinson de
Trincomalee (The
Dark Tragedy That Took Place Between the Atkinson
Brothers of Trincomalee) 1989
– short story
Histoires secrètes de 1887 (Secret Stories of 1887)
Enigmatika no 40
– short story
La plus grande
machination du siècle (The
Greatest Frame-Up of the Century) 1990 – short story
Histoires
secrètes de Sherlock Holmes
(Secret
Stories of Sherlock Holmes) 2010
- · This book collects all the Sherlock Holmes stories of René Reouven, both novels and short stories.
Fantasy and Sci-Fi
Les Grandes Profondeurs (Great Depths) 1991
Les Survenants (The Occurrences) 1996
La partition de Jéricho (The Partition of Jericho) 1999
Bouvard, Pécuchet et les savants fous (Bouvard, Pécuchet, and the Mad Doctors)
2000
Le Rêveur des plaines
(The
Dreamer of the Plains) 2005 (Western)
Non-fiction
Dictionnaire des assassins (Assassins’ Dictionary) 1974
As René
Sussan
La Route des
voleurs (Thieves’
Road) 1959
Histoire de
Farczi (Farczi’s
Story) 1964 – prix Cazes 1965
Dupont et le bonheur
des hommes (Dupont and Mens’ Happiness) 1965
L'Etoile des autres (The Star of Others) 1967
La Ville sans fantômes (The City Without Ghosts)
1968
Les Renégats de l'an mil (The Defiant One Thousand)
1992
Sci-fi and fantasy short story
collections
Les Confluents (The Confluences) 1960
L'Anneau de fumée (The Ring of Smoke) 1974
Les Insolites (The Unusual) 1984
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