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The Marais Assassin: A Victor Legris Mystery (Paperback)

by Claude Izner (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Gallic Books (2 Feb 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906040141
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906040147
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 37,391 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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


About the Author

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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3.0 out of 5 stars Translation lets this down, 1 May 2009
By Big Jim "Big Jim" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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