Hugues Pagan born 1947 is a French detective writer and television writer Hugues Pagan was born in 1947 in Orléansville French Algeria now Algeria His father was a postman who also served in the Military reserve forces of France and his mother was a school principal He earned bachelors degrees in sociology psychology and philosophy followed by a masters degree Pagan taught philosophy in Gérardmer from 1967 to 1970 He became a policeman in Nancy in 1972 he later worked in Belfort By 1988 he was an investigator in the 1988 Gare de Lyon rail accident He resigned in 1991 Pagan is the author of detective novels His first novel La Mort dans une voiture solitaire was published in 1982 He won the Prix Mystère de la critique for Dernière station avant autoroute in 1998 In 2017 he used the same protagonist as the one in his first novel Charles Schneider in Profil perdu Pagan is also a television writer he has written for Police District Un flic Mafiosa and Nicolas Le Floch Source Article Hugues Pagan from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30