The French detective writer Frédéric Dard, who has died of a heart attack aged 78, was a prolific novelist, whose work was compared to that of Georges Simenon and who was acclaimed as a "magician" ...

HMRC issued DARD with a backdated bill for national insurance after it hired the services of private vets to assist with tests for tuberculosis in cattle, known as bovine TB Northern Ireland's ...

The French have a certain way with crime. Famously, during the postwar years, French authors and auteurs took the hard-boiled style of Americans like Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond ...

“Nightmares are personal things,” thinks the trapped narrator of “Bird in a Cage” as it dawns on him that fate’s door has clanged shut. “You can experience them, that’s all you can do.” In fewer than ...