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Parisian bookseller, Victor Legris, finds a new case to investigate very close to home, when his business partner's apartment is burgled. Curiously the only item stolen is a decorative goblet of little value. But on learning that two people have been murdered who were connected to to the goblet, Victor becomes convinced of its secret significance. How quickly can he recover it and end the killing spree, in a city beset with terrorist activity? In this fourth case for the bookseller sleuth, Claude Izner offers a convincing portrait of a Paris shaken by anarchist bombings in the spring of 1892
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Claude Izner is the pseudonym of two sisters, both booksellers on the banks of the Seine in Paris. They are prolific authors in France and are experts in 19th century art and literature.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Claude Izner is the pen-name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre. Both are booksellers on the banks of the Seine, and they are experts on nineteenth-century Paris . "The Marais Assassin" is their fourth book and was first published in 2004 as "Le Secret des Enfants-Rouges" in France . It continues the adventures of Victor Legris, bookshop owner and amateur sleuth.
The book opens in the Spring of 1892, at a time when Paris is being bombed by anarchists. Meanwhile, hormones are exploding all over the bookshop on the Rue des Saints-Peres. The two bosses have perhaps least to worry about : Victor remains jealously besotted with Tasha, while Kenji regularly enjoys the company of Eudoxie Allard - better known to some as Fifi Bas-Rhin of the Moulin Rouge. However, most explosively of all, poor Joseph has fallen love with Iris - Kenji's daughter and Victor's half-sister. While she loves him in return, he lives in dread of how Kenji and Victor will react when they find out.
Things, however, are about to get a little more dangerous than an angry father and an over-protective brother. Following the death of an old friend, Kenji inherited an exotic goblet - one that, now, a couple of people are desperately keen to track down. One of them is Antoine du Houssoye, a zoologist based at the Museum of Natural History . As the book opens, he'd tracked the artefact to Lady Stone, the sister of its previous owner. She, in turn, sends him in the direction of Kenji. Unfortunately, a mysterious character known as The Emissary is hot on du Houssoye's tail. For some reason, he believes it's his religious duty to kill anyone who has owned the goblet - and shortly after du Houssoye has set off for Rue des Saintes-Peres, Lady Stone is dispatched to the afterlife.
An easy and enjoyable read and a book that seems to give a historically 'accurate' description of Paris at the time. (There are a few historical notes at the end of the book; they provide a little detail, for example, on the anarchist bombings). Having said that, it never gets too academic or bogged down in detail. Good fun, recommended.
The book opens in the Spring of 1892, at a time when Paris is being bombed by anarchists. Meanwhile, hormones are exploding all over the bookshop on the Rue des Saints-Peres. The two bosses have perhaps least to worry about : Victor remains jealously besotted with Tasha, while Kenji regularly enjoys the company of Eudoxie Allard - better known to some as Fifi Bas-Rhin of the Moulin Rouge. However, most explosively of all, poor Joseph has fallen love with Iris - Kenji's daughter and Victor's half-sister. While she loves him in return, he lives in dread of how Kenji and Victor will react when they find out.
Things, however, are about to get a little more dangerous than an angry father and an over-protective brother. Following the death of an old friend, Kenji inherited an exotic goblet - one that, now, a couple of people are desperately keen to track down. One of them is Antoine du Houssoye, a zoologist based at the Museum of Natural History . As the book opens, he'd tracked the artefact to Lady Stone, the sister of its previous owner. She, in turn, sends him in the direction of Kenji. Unfortunately, a mysterious character known as The Emissary is hot on du Houssoye's tail. For some reason, he believes it's his religious duty to kill anyone who has owned the goblet - and shortly after du Houssoye has set off for Rue des Saintes-Peres, Lady Stone is dispatched to the afterlife.
An easy and enjoyable read and a book that seems to give a historically 'accurate' description of Paris at the time. (There are a few historical notes at the end of the book; they provide a little detail, for example, on the anarchist bombings). Having said that, it never gets too academic or bogged down in detail. Good fun, recommended.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I must admit to perhaps over-eulogising the previous book in this series as this one has brought me down to earth a bit. The storyline is engaging, the descriptions of Paris and the characters therein are enjoyable but somehow the story just doesn't flow. Having re-visited the Montmartre Investigation I have come to realise that the translation is just too stilted especially around speech and idiom. If I can just use one (of many) examples one of the characters says "...You are attributing motives to me" What the dickens does that mean? I notice that the translators appear to be "house" translators for the publishers as they have done other books but they have to stop supplying us with direct dictionary definitions and actually "translate" the French into something we can understand. They could do worse than check out some of the newer translations of Zola for example.
That said, the story is interesting enough to keep you on to the end but I fear a more flexible translation will be required for future adventures.
That said, the story is interesting enough to keep you on to the end but I fear a more flexible translation will be required for future adventures.
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This series of books is enjoyable, not only for the plot, but also for the interesting insight into Parisian and French history. It's worth trying to read these books in the order they were written, as they do refer to one another.
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