Book description
Paris 1890. Lady's maid Denise le Louarn fears the worst when her
mistress, Odette de Valois, vanishes from the Père-Lachaise cemetery
during a visit to her husband's grave. All alone in the great
metropolis Denise knows just one person she can go to for help:
Odette's former lover, Victor Legris, When the frightened girl turns
up at his bookshop and tells him her story, Victor feels there must be
a simple explanation for her disappearance. But as he begins to look
into the matter, it soon becomes clear that something sinister lies
behind events at the Père-Lachaise.
Claude Izner is the pen-name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and
Laurence Lefevre. Both booksellers on the banks of the River Seine, they
are experts on nineteenth-century Paris.
