- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd; First World Edition edition (31 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0727855611
- ISBN-13: 978-0727855619
- Product Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.6 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 437,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An Auguste Didier mystery. It seemed a wonderful idea - a staged scene to tempt the ghost of Marie Antoinette into showing herself at Le Petit Trianon. But the body found in the dead queen's bedchamber is no ghost, potential suspects abound and everyone is under suspicion.
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Auguste Didier, master chef and French husband of a Russian relation to King Edward, is once again dragged from his culinary arts when he is drawn into a strange reconstruction of a supposed ghost sighting by two women on a trip to the Petit Trianon, the play estate of the fated French Queen, Marie Antoinette. Amongst the party is the king himself, along with a heady mix of acquaintance and former lovers/admirers of Montmartre and Moulin Rouge heydays, where memories last long and passions refuse to die.
But humans can. And so Auguste and the party discover when during the reconstruction of the ghost walk in the illustrous grounds of the murdered queen, history repeats itself. When the newly married wife of one of the guests is found with her throat slit in a gruesome parody of Madame Guillotine, all thoughts turn immediately to La Dervichause, the beautiful mistress of the husband, who has already threatened to make him a widower. But he was not the only one to enjoy La Dervichause's charms, and she, too, has now gone missing.
It is up to Auguste to assist the French police and his English Inspector friend, Egbert, in solving the case, before the king himself is implicated or the ghosts of murdered women rise again...
A good, entertaining story with a nice little history into the Petit Trianon and the days when Montmartre was the centre of heady passions and pulsing life in the night hours.
But humans can. And so Auguste and the party discover when during the reconstruction of the ghost walk in the illustrous grounds of the murdered queen, history repeats itself. When the newly married wife of one of the guests is found with her throat slit in a gruesome parody of Madame Guillotine, all thoughts turn immediately to La Dervichause, the beautiful mistress of the husband, who has already threatened to make him a widower. But he was not the only one to enjoy La Dervichause's charms, and she, too, has now gone missing.
It is up to Auguste to assist the French police and his English Inspector friend, Egbert, in solving the case, before the king himself is implicated or the ghosts of murdered women rise again...
A good, entertaining story with a nice little history into the Petit Trianon and the days when Montmartre was the centre of heady passions and pulsing life in the night hours.
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