The Pere-Lachaise Mystery

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. Lorenza Garcia translates from French and Spanish. Her two most recent translations are The Montmartre Investigation by Claude Izner, which she co-translated with Isabel Reid, and The Season of the Beast by Andrea H. Japp. She currently lives in London. Klappentext Award-winning Parisian crime series. Bookseller-sleuth Victor Legris follows the disappearance of a woman at the city's most famous cemetery. Zusammenfassung In Paris 1890, Lady's maid Denise le Louarn fears the worst when her mistress, Odette de Valois, vanishes from the Pere-Lachaise cemetery during a visit to her husband's grave. This is the second in the series of Parisian murder mysteries featuring lovable hero Victor Legris, a bookseller and amateur sleuth.

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'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: Lorenza Garcia (Translation), Garcia Lorenza (Translation), Isabel Reid (Translation), Reid Isabel (Translation)
• Publisher: Gallic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.10.2007
• EAN: 9781906040048
• ISBN: 978-1-906040-04-8
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Victor Legris; A Victor Legris Mystery; The Victor Legris Mysteries; Victor Legris; The Victor Legris Mysteries; A Victor Legris Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical mysteries, Historical crime and mysteries