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Grandville Bete Noire by Bryan Talbot (Hardcover, 2012)

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Title: Grandville Bete Noire. Author: Bryan Talbot. At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state.

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'The bastard child of Conan Doyle and Beatrix Potter, it's a gripping feast for the eyes.' Rachel Cooke, Observer The third volume of the Grandville series - Anthropomorphic steampunk detective fiction from graphic novel master Bryan Talbot The Badger is back! Follow the Badger! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state. Meanwhile, the brutal murder of a famous Parisian artist is subject to the investigations of the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard, placing him and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sergeant Roderick Ratzi, in pursuit of the mysterious masked assassin stalking the cut-throat commercial world of the Grandville art scene. As the body count mounts and events spiral exponentially out of control, aided by his brilliant deductive abilities and innate ferocity, LeBrock battles against outrageous odds in this funny, high octane thriller, an adventure shot through with both high art and comic book references, a glorious illegitimate offspring of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming - with animals! 'The bastard child of Conan Doyle and Beatrix Potter, it's a gripping feast for the eyes' Observer

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PublisherVintage Publishing

ISBN-139780224096249

eBay Product ID (ePID)129236326

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Book TitleGrandville Bete Noire

AuthorBryan Talbot

FormatHardcover

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

GenreComics

Number of Pages104 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height304mm

Item Width217mm

Item Weight831g

Additional Product Features

Title_AuthorBryan Talbot

Series TitleGrandville Series

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by backbonefilms
17 Jul, 2019
Excellent
One of the best drawn series of graphic novels. All the Grandville books are worth reading in my opinion.
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by veritas371981
18 Aug, 2021
don't badger me..
brilliant addition to an awesome series of books, if you're looking for something different you should try grandville
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