num_pages: 224
description: Philip Kovacs, a teacher in Paris, returns to his flat to find the smell of his own fear in the air. Nearby, a woman at the tomb of Victor Noir, a 19th-century journalist, leaves a letter bearing Kovacs's name in the hat lying beside Noir's effigy. For Kovacs, the nightmare has only just begun.
language: English
title: The Hat of Victor Noir
titlecomplete: The Hat of Victor Noir
ratings_count: 39
publisher: Fourth Estate