The Vanishing at Père-Lachaise
A Paris Bookshop Mystery
Claude Izner author Lorenza Garcia translator Isabel Reid translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Publishing:13th Aug '26
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 13th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Paris 1890. Lady's maid Denise le Louarn fears the worst when her mistress, Odette de Valois, vanishes from the Père-Lachaise cemetery during a visit to her husband's grave. All alone in the great metropolis, Denise knows just one person she can go to for help: Odette's former lover, Victor Legris. When the frightened girl turns up at his bookshop and tells him her story, Victor feels there must be a simple explanation for her disappearance. But as he begins to look into the matter, it soon becomes clear that something sinister lies behind events at the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
Our hero is Victor Legris, a bibliophile and amateur sleuth who has neither twinkly eyes nor a neat moustache, but can at least boast a picturesque pair of buttocks... There follows a satisfyingly convoluted yarn involving painted Madonnas, fiendish disguises and skulduggery in deepest Colombia -- Stephanie Cross * Observer *
Claude Izner - in reality, historian sisters Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre - brilliantly evokes 1890s Paris, a smoky, sinister world full of predatory mediums and a ghoulish public, in a cracking, highly satisfying yarn. -- Cathi Unsworth * Guardian *
- - Praise for The Victor Legris Mysteries * - *
A charming journey through the life and intellectual times of an era * Le Monde *
Witty and creepy * Independent on Sunday *
Cracking * Guardian *
Full of pungent period detail * Observer *
ISBN: 9781805335870
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
320 pages