Book description
Why would anyone strangle a humble seamstress with no known
enemies?When newly-married bookseller Victor Legris is asked to solve
the murder of Louise Fontaine in the abattoir district of La Villette,
he is initially baffled by the case. But as the investigation
progresses, Victor, along with his assistant and brother-in-law
Joseph, discovers that in belle-époque Paris young girls with no money
or background are as ruthlessly preyed on as ever they were
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.
