When young and handsome Othman married Sofia-sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior-he found his ticket out of a life of desperate poverty in the slums of Casablanca. But when Sofia is brutally murdered, the police quickly zero in on Othman as the prime suspect. With his mistress, the love of his life, waiting in the wings he certainly has motive. But is he guilty? Or has he been framed by an overzealous, corrupt police force?

The first Arabic detective novel to be translated into English

About the Author
Born in Mekne s, Morocco in 1958, Abdelilah Hamdouchi is one of the first writers of police fiction in Arabic and a prolific, award-winning screenwriter of police thrillers, including Whitefly (AUC Press, 2016). He lives in Rabat, Morocco. Translator Jonathan Smolin is the author of Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture (2013), and translator of Abdelilah Hamdouchi's Whitefly (AUC Press, 2016). He lives in Hanover, NH.

Reviews

"Abdelilah Hamdouchi seems to have found the formula for the emergence of the Moroccan detective novel."--Liberation Kaleidoscope

"The Final Bet is a great introduction to Moroccan policiers--at once very familiar to western crime fiction readers, but then very Moroccan too as family loyalties, filial debts and traditional prejudices all swirl around the case."--Literary Hub

Book Information
ISBN 9789774167799
Author Abdelilah Hamdouchi
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Hoopoe
Publisher The American University in Cairo Press
Weight(grams) 144g
Dimensions(mm) 205mm * 130mm * 15mm