Rocco and the Nightingale Cornelius Medvei as DI Mark Tartaglia and

as DI Mark Tartaglia and DS Sam Donovan scratch away at the surface

stand in the palaces and are on stage in the playhouses

Faulkner said

Illustrated throughout by the inimitable Quentin Blake

Rocco and the Nightingale Cornelius Medvei as DI Mark Tartaglia andWhen a minor Paris criminal is found stabbed in the neck on a country lane in Picardie it looks like another case for Inspector Lucas Rocco. But instead he is called off to watch over a Gabonese government minister, hiding out in France following a coup. Meanwhile, Rocco discovers that there is a contract on his head taken out by an Algerian gang leader with a personal grudge against him.