Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed "the Graham Greene of France".
Famous in the Francophony, he was little known in the English-speaking world, though a number of his novels have been translated into English and have been made into films.
Famous in the Francophony, he was little known in the English-speaking world, though a number of his novels have been translated into English and have been made into films.
Novels
The 10.30 from Marseilles (1963)
aka The Sleeping Car Murders
Trap for Cinderella (1964)
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1967)
Goodbye, Friend (1969)
One Deadly Summer (1980)
Women in Evidence (1990)
aka The Passion of Women
A Very Long Engagement (1993)
Rider on the Rain (1999)
aka The Sleeping Car Murders
Trap for Cinderella (1964)
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1967)
Goodbye, Friend (1969)
One Deadly Summer (1980)
Women in Evidence (1990)
aka The Passion of Women
A Very Long Engagement (1993)
Rider on the Rain (1999)
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