1931 - The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man's beautiful daughter - and to her hot-tempered American husband.There's never been a novel like The Twenty-Year Death: a breathtaking first novel written in the form of three separate crime novels that can be read in any order, each set in a different decade and penned in the style of different giants of the mystery genre - George Simenon, Raymond Chandler, and Jim Thompson.