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Genre/Form: | Detective and mystery fiction Fiction Historical fiction History Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Claude Izner |
ISBN: | 9781250048103 9780312662172 0312662173 1250048109 |
OCLC Number: | 1040976788 |
Language Note: | First published in France as Le talisman de la Villette by Editions. |
Notes: | Translated from the French. |
Description: | 317 pages ; 22 cm |
Other Titles: | Talisman de la Villette. |
Responsibility: | Claude Izner ; translated by Jennifer Higgins. |
Abstract:
"The coast of Normandy, 1894: A mysterious young woman is rescued by an anonymous man after a deadly shipwreck. Paris, a few months later: The body of a well-dressed woman in a velvet mask is found in the abattoir district of La Villette in Paris. Next to the brutally strangled corpse, the drunk watchman--who witnessed the crime but was too terrified to intervene--finds a pendant featuring a black unicorn. Newly married bookseller Victor Legris is asked by an acquaintance to solve the murder of Louise Fontane, but he is initially baffled by the case. Louise was poor, so where did her finery come from? And what is the significance of the black unicorn? Within days, two more murders startle Paris--both victims were well-respected and seemingly wealthy, both have been killed in a similar fashion, both men's apartments have been defaced and ransacked, and both were members of the Black Unicorn Society, an organization bent on finding the philosopher's stone. Victor and his assistant (and brother-in-law), Jojo, struggle to draw the connections between the murders. And they struggle to keep their sleuthing from their wives, who frown upon their interest in mysteries. As their secret investigation progresses, they discover that in belle epoque Paris, young girls with no money or background are as ruthlessly preyed on as ever they were"--
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