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The black tower

Author: Louis Bayard
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary: Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette.
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Genre/Form: Historical fiction., Mystery fiction.
Named Person: Eugène François Vidocq
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Louis Bayard
ISBN: 9780061173509 0061173509 9780061173516 0061173517 9780061668326 006166832X
OCLC Number: 191882075
Notes: Map on lining papers.
Description: x, 352 p. : map, geneal. table ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Louis Bayard.

Abstract:

Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette.

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