TY - BOOK AU - Vargas,Fred TI - The chalk circle man SN - 9780099488972 (pbk.) : PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Adamsberg, Jean-Baptiste (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Police KW - France KW - Paris KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Crime KW - eflch N1 - This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2009 N2 - Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects & arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is highly successful ER -