title: The Idle Pursuit of Pleasure
author: Katsirubas, Peter
description: A literary novel set in 1920's Paris, when the city was the center of the universe for painters and writers and pleasure-seekers. A self-destructive artist witnesses the crime-of-passion killing of a woman by her female lover and becomes intimately involved with the murderess and overcome by his obsession to capture her on canvas. Matters are complicated when it is discovered that the victim was the wife of a British noble and it becomes politically imperative for the police to resolve the case.