The Missing Piece
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Between March and September of the year 1995, five murders shook the professional Speed Puzzle Tour. The modus operandi was always the same: the murderer would amputate the victim of a limb, then leave on the body a piece of a Polaroid photograph depicting the corresponding limb of another man. Evidently, speed puzzle, a sport by then as popular as football and basketball, had become the hunting ground of a serious killer.
Suspects are in no short supply: from the tyrannical president of the erudite Society of Puzzlology to the reigning champion who has mysteriously vanished to the billionaire who started the Tour.
Can you solve the puzzle?
The Missing Piece has been translated into a dozen languages.
Antoine Bello
Antoine Bello est un auteur de langue française, né à Boston en 1970. Il vit à New York. En 1996, il publie un recueil de nouvelles, Les funambules, aux Editions Gallimard. Couronnés du prix littéraire de la Vocation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, ces cinq textes mettent en scène des personnages surhumains lancés à la poursuite d'une perfection inaccessible. Le premier roman d'Antoine Bello, Eloge de la pièce manquante (1998) remporte un grand succès et est traduit dans une dizaine de langues. L'histoire se déroule dans l'univers fictif du puzzle de vitesse. Le roman se présente sous la forme de cinquante pièces - articles de journaux, rapports, interviews - sans cohérence apparente. Suivent deux romans formant un dyptique, Les falsificateurs (2007) et Les éclaireurs (2009), qui content l'ascension d'un jeune Islandais, Sliv Dartunghuver, au sein d'une organisation secrète internationale qui falsifie la réalité et réécrit l'histoire. Les Eclaireurs ont reçu le Prix France Culture - Telerama. En 2010, Enquête sur la disparition d'Emilie Brunet joue avec les codes du roman policier en rendant hommage à Agatha Christie et Edgar Poe. En 2012, il publie sur amazon deux nouvelles, L'Actualité et Légendes, initialement conçues pour figurer dans Les falsificateurs. Antoine Bello travaille actuellement à son prochain roman, l'histoire d'un jeune footballeur prodigieusement doué qui décline les offres des plus grands clubs pour jouer dans le championnat universitaire et décrocher le titre que son père était sur le point de gagner avant sa mort. Dans une vie précédente, Antoine a créé, développé puis revendu la société Ubiqus, qui propose des services de comptes rendus aux organisateurs de réunions. (Photo : Christopher Michel)
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