The old lady's silent gold
The quiet gold of the old lady (original title: Pas de bavards à la Muette ) is a crime novel by the French author Léo Malet about his fictional character Nestor Burma , which was published in 1956.
action
The private detective Nestor Burma has to investigate in the 16th arrondissement of the French metropolis Paris . This arrondissement opposite the Eiffel Tower and the Bois de Boulogne was already known in the 1950s as the neighborhood of wealthy snobs , for whom no vice went too far. A rich elderly lady, Madame Aliot, instructs him to find her missing jewelry, which her former chauffeur and lover allegedly stole. This - as it turns out later - has already been shot by her niece. But Burma notes that some information may not be correct here. The lady, who did not want a scandal , has to admit that it is actually hidden Nazi money that a gang of gangsters is now chasing after.
background
Peter Stephan added a literary " Nachgang " to the German-language edition of the Elster Verlag , in which the changes in the 16th arrondissement and its locations are illuminated from the perspective of 30 years later. This was also to be found in the later paperback edition of the Rowohlt Verlag, but was missing from the complete edition of the two-thousand-one publishing house for copyright reasons .
expenditure
- Léo Malet: The old lady's silent gold . Translated by Hans-Joachim Hartstein, Elster-Verlag 1988, 191 pages, ISBN 978-3891510605
- Léo Malet: The old lady's silent gold . Rowohlt Verlag Rororo , Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, 188 pages, ISBN 978-3499129209
Radio play editing
There is an adaptation of the same name from the DAISY audio book production, which is read out by Ria Rödiger. There is also a radio play adaptation by Südwestfunk from 1998, directed by Hans Gerd Krogmann , with Christian Brückner as Burma and Sabine Postel as Hélène.
filming
The French TV station Antenne 2 even produced the film version of the original material in 1991 under the title Pas de bavards à la Muette (director: Henri Helman , first broadcast: September 29, 1991) as part of its planned series about Nestor Burma with Guy Marchand in the title role.