In the sixth Victor Legris mystery, our newly-married protagonist is baffled by the death of a seamstress.
‘…brooding and atmospheric’ Publishers Weekly
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. But as the investigation progresses, Victor, along with his assistant and brother-in-law Joseph, discovers that in belle-époque Paris young girls with no money or background are as ruthlessly preyed on as ever they were …
Circa l’autore
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.
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