Frédéric Dard

He wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the San-Antonio book series.

Frédéric Dard wrote 175 adventures of San-Antonio, of which millions of copies were sold.

[citation needed] Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio is a kind of French James Bond without gadgets, flanked by two colleagues, the old, sickly but wise inspector César Pinaud and the gargantuesque inspector Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier.

Dard won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière for The Executioner Weeps.

A few have been translated into English: Apart from San-Antonio, Dard wrote number under various other pseudonyms, including Frederic Antony, Verne Goody, William Blessings, Cornel Milk, Frederic Charles and L'Ange Noir.