# Have Mercy on Us All

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- Book: [Have Mercy on Us All](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas/have-mercy-on-us-all) ([Have Mercy on Us All.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas/have-mercy-on-us-all.md))
- Authors: [Fred Vargas](https://www.bookquiver.com/fred-vargas)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-364-2
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2004-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box. Over the course of a few days he receives a number of disturbing and portentous messages of malicious intent, all of them referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared on the doors of several buildings: symbols once used to ward off the plague. Detective Commissaire Adamsberg begins to sense a connection, even a grotesque menace. Then charged and flea-bitten corpses are found. The press seizes on their plague-like symptoms, and the panic sets in.