Jacquemard - Sénécal

The Profile

Yves Jacquemard and Jean-Michel Sénécal are French authors who collaborated on detective novels in the late 1970s; L’Undicesimo Piccolo Indiano is a declared homage to Agatha Christie.

The book L’Undicesimo Piccolo Indiano is described in available reviews as a theatrical-set detective novel and has been out of print for a long time.

L’Undicesimo Piccolo Indiano is a declared homage to Agatha Christie set around a theatrical company performing And Then There Were None. The narrator is the actor who plays the guilty character; the investigation is old-school, dialogue-heavy deduction. The finale reconnects strongly to Christie's solutions but the authors deploy many false trails. The reviewer finds the book entertaining though uneven and notes it is long out of print.