Andréas Apostolidis, translated on behalf of Agra editions a large part of the work of Raymond Chandler, Jerome Charyn, James Ellroy, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, not to mention stories from Agatha Christie. While continuing his translations and carrying out various journalistic investigations giving rise to books or documentary films, he embarked on the writing of detective stories from the mid-nineties.