num_pages: 412
description: In this thrilling new book New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series leads readers into the vibrant and sensual Paris of the Jazz Ageand reveals the darkest secrets of its denizens.Paris France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant the assignment is a private investigators dreamhes getting paid to troll the cafs and bars of Montparnasse looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie de bohme despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris modeling and acting. Her family became alarmed when she stopped all communications and Stuyvesant agreed to track her down. He wholly expects to find her in the arms of some up-and-coming artist perhaps experimenting with the decadent lifestyle that is suddenly available on every rue and boulevard. As Stuyvesant follows Philippas trail through the expatriate community of artists and writers he finds that she is known to many of its famousand infamousinhabitants from Shakespeare and Companys Sylvia Beach to Ernest Hemingway to the Surrealist photographer Man Ray. But when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Thtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre his investigation takes a sharp disturbing turn. At the Grand-Guignol murder insanity and sexual perversion are all staged to shocking brutal effect: depravity as art savage human nature on stage. Soon it becomes clear that one missing girl is a drop in the bucket. Here amid the glittering lights of the cabarets hides a monster whose artistic coup de grce is to be rendered in blood. And Stuyvesant will have to descend into the darkest depths of perversion to find a killer . . . sifting through The Bones of Paris.
language: English
title: The Bones of Paris
publisher: Bantam