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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 6
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Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure's gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is on her hands, and she is charged with her partner's murder. The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Aimee is determined to clear Laure's name. In doing so, she encounters separatist terrorists, Montmartre prostitutes, a surrealist...
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Immersed in the refined subcultures of the contemporary Parisian art world, French attorney André Gensonné sleepwalks through his personal life.
He transcended the pinnacle of art crime professionalism but remains aloof-afraid to trust. His youth vanished eighteen years ago when his brother drowned and he failed to save him. He bears the weight of two sons for his wealthy family and for their prestigious four-generation law firm.
Then he discovers...
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Make new friends, but kill the old... After twenty years living in France, Maggie's proud of her language skills and her ability to adapt to a foreign culture, so when four women from her Atlanta high school invite her to get together for a mini reunion in Paris, Maggie can't wait to show them how she's changed. Unfortunately, after two awkward days and a miserable Seine River tour Maggie realizes what she should have remembered-three of the four...
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Born to a French mother and an American father, tienne Campbell is a skeptical American reporter who has made his way to Paris like so many others before him seeking inspiration to write novels. Now freed from work and a disloyal lover, he hopes to restart his life and discover whether his seemingly irrational belief that guardian angels exist is true after all.It is not long before he meets the beautiful and progressive Emma Chastel, a museum curator...
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Amid the hustle and bustle of the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition, workers discover the mutilated corpse of a popular model and Moulin Rouge Can-Can dancer in a Montmartre sewer. Hysterical rumors swirl that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel, and Inspector Achille Lefebvre enters the Parisian underworld to track down the brutal killer. His suspects are the artist Toulouse-Lautrec, an acrobat at the Circus Fernando named Jojo, and Sir Henry Collingwood,...
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Penguin Press
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2015.
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English
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When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century. The cross-fertilization...
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Inspector Lefebvre novels volume 1
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English
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Inspector Achille Lefebvre delves deep into the underworld of 1889 Paris to investigate the murder of a popular dancer at the Moulin Rouge amidst fears that Jack the Ripper has crossed the English Channel.
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Music of the African diaspora volume 4
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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