The main character in A Happy Death is named "Patrice Mersault", similar to The Strangers main character "Meursault"; both are French Algerian clerks who kill a man in cold blood.
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Mersault gets to know the rich invalid Roland Zagreus (Zagreus is a character of Greek mythology) who shows Mersault a way out: "Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time."
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