Book description
November 1891. The body of a young woman is discovered at a
crossroads on Boulevard Montmartre. Barefoot and dressed in red, she
has been strangled and her face disfigured. That same day a single red
shoe is delivered to Victor Legris's Parisian bookshop. Suspecting
more than just coincidence, the bookseller sleuth and his assistant
Jojo are soon engaged in seeking out the identity of both victim and
murderer. In this third investigation set in belle-époque Paris, we
are drawn with Victor into the city's nightlife and the legendary
Moulin Rouge immortalised by Toulouse- Lautrec, who features in the story.
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.
