Aveline, Claude (pseud. of Eugène Avtsine) (1901-92). French writer whose career as publisher, president of the Société Anatole France, Resistance writer (‘Minervois’, Le Temps mort, 1944), radio author (Prix Italia, 1955), novelist (La Vie de Philippe Denis, trilogy, 1930-55; Le Poids du feu, 1958), is eclipsed by his Suite policière: L'Abonné de la ligne U (1947), Voiture 7, place 15 (1937), Le Jet d'eau (1947), L'Œil-de-chat (1970), La Double Mort de Frédéric Belot (1932). These stories turn on mystifications and impersonations, and are linked by the detective Belot, though he is a minor character in the second and third, and dead in the last.
[Stephen Noreiko]
