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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. Jane Aitken is a publisher and translator from the French. Klappentext Its November! 1891. The body of a young woman is discovered at a crossroads on Boulevard Montmartre. Barefoot and dressed in red! she has been strangled and her face disfigured. That same day a single red shoe is delivered to Victor Legris' Parisian bookshop. Zusammenfassung Its November, 1891. The body of a young woman is discovered at a crossroads on Boulevard Montmartre. Barefoot and dressed in red, she has been strangled and her face disfigured. That same day a single red shoe is delivered to Victor Legris' Parisian bookshop.
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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
