Complex sentence: In Paris, Frances buys a hat decorated with a rose as a signal for their first contact, who silently instructs them to go to a café in Montmartre where an unseen contact plants a tourist guidebook to southern Germany in Richard's coat.
Split into simpler sentences: In Paris, Frances buys a hat decorated with a rose as a signal for their first contact, who silently instructs them to go to a café in Montmartre. Another contact plants a tourist guidebook to southern Germany in Richard's coat.