The first book in the Walter Presents library: a fast-paced comic Mystery enriched by a deep love of booksReaders always find themselves in a book, one way or anotherIn the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers.
Sceptics cry that the whole thing is a hoax: how could this man have written such a masterpiece? An obstinate journalist, Jean-Michel Rouche, heads to Brittany to investigate.
By turns funny and moving, The Mystery of Henri Pick is a fast-paced comic Mystery enriched by a deep love of books - and of the authors who write them..
Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring it back to Paris to publish it.
The book is a sensation, prompting fevered interest in the identity of its author - apparently one Henri Pick, a now-deceased pizza chef from Crozon.
The first book in the Walter Presents library: a fast-paced comic Mystery enriched by a deep love of booksReaders always find themselves in a book, one way or anotherIn the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers