Strangled in Paris: 6th Victor Legris Mystery - Victor Legris Bk 6

Zusatztext ‘A charming journey through the life and intellectual times of an era’ Le Monde‘Witty and creepy’ Independent on Sunday‘Cracking’ The Guardian‘Full of pungent period detail’ The Observer Informationen zum Autor Claude Izner  is the pen-name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre. Both booksellers on the banks of the Seine, they are experts on nineteenth-century Paris. Liliane Korb died in March 2022. Jennifer Higgins  is a Junior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford, specialising in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century French poetry. Klappentext Bookseller-sleuth Victor Legris discovers that in belle-époque Paris, young girls without money or background are as ruthlessly preyed upon. Zusammenfassung Why would anyone strangle a humble seamstress with no known enemies? When newly-married bookseller Victor Legris is asked to solve the murder of Louise Fontaine in the abattoir district of La Villette, he is initially baffled by the case.

Report

'A charming journey through the life and intellectual times of an era' Le Monde 'Witty and creepy' Independent on Sunday 'Cracking' The Guardian 'Full of pungent period detail' The Observer

Product details

• Authors: Claude Izner, Izner Claude
• Assisted by: Jennifer Higgins (Translation), Higgins Jennifer (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9781906040376
• ISBN: 978-1-906040-37-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Victor Legris; Victor Legris Mystery; The Victor Legris Mysteries; Victor Legris; The Victor Legris Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime and mystery fiction