Le Moulin de la Sourdine

Le Moulin de la Sourdine (1936), translated as The Secret Stream, is a novel by French writer Marcel Aymé.

Written between the fall of 1935 and the spring of 1936, Le Moulin de la Sourdine first appeared as a serial in Marianne from 29 April to 5 August 1936 before being published by Gallimard.[1]

In a small provincial French town (based on Dole, where the author grew up), a notary in the grip of his sexual fantasies savagely murders his young maid. A schoolboy happens to witness the crime during an escapade atop a church bell tower, but after the maid's body is discovered, suspicions quickly fall upon a vagrant with a physical deformity.[1][2]

The book was translated into English by Norman Denny for the Bodley Head in 1953.

References
  1. "Marcel Aymé Le Moulin de la Sourdine". www.marcelayme.net. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  2. Aymé, Marcel (1953). The Secret Stream. Translated by Denny, Norman. New York: Harper.


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