Hervé Gaillet
Hervé Gaillet is a novelist and blogger. He has published six crime novels in which the writer Pierre Benoit takes on the role of an amateur detective in a fictionalized way ( Behind the Lines – 2017, winner of the 2017 AlterPublishing Prize; A Beautiful Woman for the Soliloquy – 2019; Code Ancolie – 2020; Pierre Benoit Investigates and Pierre Benoit Faces Crime – 2023; Why Not Pierre Benoit? – 2025). He is a member of the Association of Friends of Pierre Benoit and regularly contributes to its annual journal.
Hervé Gaillet was awarded the 2021 Pierre Benoit Prize by the French Academy for his book Pierre Benoît , published by AlterPublishing in November 2020.
Hervé Gaillet - Why not Pierre Benoit?
Writer, novelist, poet, journalist and academician (1931) with a whimsical and picturesque personality, Pierre Benoit (1886 – 1962) enchanted millions of readers from the early 1920s to the late 1950s, while also delighting the society press of the interwar period.
However, he did happen (fictitiously and under the identity of Deputy Inspector Ferdinand Fraisse, of the 1st Special Brigade) to be called upon to solve some delicate criminal cases or to unravel seemingly unsolvable enigmas.
"Why not Pierre Benoit?" ask themselves, successively, an old comrade from the Latin Quarter, a hesitant investigating judge, a perplexed gendarmerie commander, a bewildered museum director and, of course, his friend Commissioner Fortalembert, always happy with the often decisive contribution of this facetious writer who never really takes himself seriously.
Pierre Benoit Investigation Series