Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Strangled in Paris / Claude Izner ; translated by Jennifer Higgins.

by Izner, Claude.

View full image

Minotaur Books, 2013.

Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction.

Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction.

Izner, Claude. Victor Legris mysteries ; 6.

Talisman de la Villette. English English.

317 p. ; 22 cm.

Translation of: Le talisman de la Villette.

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-317).

"Lame recluse Corentin Jourdan rescues an attractive young woman, Sophie Clairsange, from a schooner wrecked during a powerful storm on the Normandy coast. After Sophie recovers from her ordeal, she heads to Paris, followed by Jourdan. About a month later in Paris, Martin Lorson, a professional stand-in for a variety of workers in need of a break, is serving one night as a watchman at the La Villette meat market, where, to his horror, he witnesses a man strangle a masked woman. The crime attracts the interest of bookseller and sleuth Legris, who's tantalized by the one clue left behind by the killer: a medallion with an engraving of a unicorn."--Publishers Weekly. the significance of the black.

Mystery fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal