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Despite his promises to give up the dangerous hobby of amateur sleuthing, belle-epoque bookseller Victor Legris's interest is piqued by a killer who refers to leopards in his notes and seems determined to exact revenge for events that took place many years before during the Commune.
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"Lame recluse Corentin Jourdan rescues an attractive young woman, Sophie Clairsange, from a schooner wrecked during a powerful storm on the Normandy coast. After Sophie recovers from her ordeal, she heads to Paris, followed by Jourdan. About a month later in Paris, Martin Lorson, a professional stand-in for a variety of workers in need of a break, is serving one night as a watchman at the La Villette meat market, where, to his horror, he witnesses...
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Victor Legris mystery volume 1
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The shiny, new Eiffel Tower is the pride and glory of the 1889 World Exposition. Unfortunately, on one sunny afternoon, a woman collapses and dies on this Paris landmark. Victor Legris, a bookseller who happened to be on the tower at the time of the incident, is determined to find out what actually happened.
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"Paris, Spring 1892. Intrepid bookseller Victor Legris stumbles upon a new case to investigate when his business partner Kenji Mori's apartment is burgled. Curiously, the only item stolen is a decorative goblet of little value. But on learning that two people who were connected to the goblet have been murdered, Victor becomes convinced of its secret significance. He launches himself into the investigation, which takes him through the underbelly of...
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