Jerome K. Jerome Bloche 2: The Paper People

The youthful private-eye-in-training returns. This time he's off to the French countryside, eager to solve his first real case. Unfortunately, he's more Clouseau than Spade.

Jerome gets his first true case when he receives an emergency summons from the Baron de Verville, who claims his life is in danger. When Jerome arrives at the Baron's villa, however, his client is nowhere to be found, and the young detective is told to return home. As if that weren't suspicious enough, his doubts grow when he meets the villa's other occupants, which include the Baron's two adult children, who don't seem the least concerned about their father's disappearance. The gothic architecture, secret passages, hidden closets, and suspicious characters are the perfect ingredients for murder. It's like something out of a board game, and Jerome K. Jerome Bloche is right in the middle of it.

Presented for the first time in English.

Alain Dodier was born in Dunkirk, France, in 1955 and has no memory of a time without comics. He drew for comics fanzines in the early 1970s and sold his first professional work in 1977. His friendship with Pierre Makyo led to two series: the humorous Gully and, in 1982, the more realistic Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche. Alain has drawn more than two dozen Jerome stories and, after the first few stories, began writing them, too. His work on Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche has earned him two awards at the Angoulème International Comics Festival, one for Best Series and one for Best Youth Series.