by Anna Sam
ISBN 978–1–906040–04–8
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The third Victor Legris Mystery
THE MONTMARTRE INVESTIGATION
Claude Izner
(Translated by Isabel Reid and Lorenza Garcia)
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’s Parisian bookshop.
Suspecting more than just coincidence, the bookseller sleuth and his assistant Jojo are soon engaged in seeking out the identity of both victim and murderer.
In this third investigation set in belle-époque Paris, we are drawn with Victor into the city’s nightlife and the legendary Moulin Rouge immortalised by Toulouse-Lautrec, who features in the story.
‘… conveys the fin-de-siècle atmosphere extremely well and Paris, with its leafy boulevards, its slums, cafés, railway stations and its night-life, is richly conveyed’ Historical Novels Review
‘Full of pungent period detail … a satisfyingly convoluted yarn’ Observer
‘A charming journey through the life and intellectual times of an era’ Le Monde
ISBN: 978–1–906040–05–5
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CHECKOUT
A LIFE ON THE TILLS
Anna Sam
Anna Sam was born in 1979 in Rennes where she still lives with her husband and two dogs. Checkout: A Life on the Tills is her first book.
Morag Young
Morag Young studied French and Italian at Leeds University and subsequently worked for the European institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg. She now lives in Paris and works as a translator.
First published in France as Les tribulations d’une caissière
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