About 5000 thriller-mystery books are coming out every day in various forms. Add this one in, under the NOIR tag.
It's an old-school P.I story with a social context like all Noir, amateurish but very respectful to the genre-style, and certainly not aiming to become famous and immortal as the great ones like Chandler, Hammett, Thomson, etc. just to name a few. A vagabond-bon viveur, politically unethical and frustrated turns out a sleuth by accident -or wishful thinking perhaps –picks up a catchy name and gets mixed up in a femme fatale case with a killing, two of them the same price, in the beautiful city of Pau, south France under the protecting wings of a rich and generous old woman – and her parrot. A hard-boiled old-school Private Detective with all the flows of the genre, boozer, dirty-mouth, sarcastic, womanizer, sexist, impudent, etc. They all seem to have come out of the same mold. Mine is also a tournament Bridge player, Sherlock played the violin. Isidore Ducasse, P.I, is meant to become a series. History will show.
I am not a writer, I'm too old to become one. I'm just a NOIR LOVER, both movies and literature, and I have studied them both thoroughly as a reader and a spectator. My first try writing a book was combined with History and that's how my first book A BYZANTINE REQUIEM came out. But...I'm no Historian either and the result was not "very" Noir. This new one aims to be 100% Noir albeit some autobiographical elements remains pure fiction and any resemblance ... blah, blah blah.
At 67 already, a Greek in South France, bored and idle, spend sometime traveling-dreaming into imaginary worlds and situations. That's the spirit. And thanks to the free Amazon KDP program, it comes out in print. Why not?