Strangled in Paris
By: Claude Izner ; translated by Jennifer Higgins
Contributors: Higgins, Jennifer, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Series: A Victor Legris mystery
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780312662172
Subjects: Fiction; Murder; Booksellers and bookselling; Victor Legris (Fictitious character); History
Work titles: Talisman de la Villette
Description: "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 a man strangle a masked woman. The crime attracts the interest of bookseller and sleuth Legris, who's tantalized by the one clue left behind by the killer: a medallion with an engraving of a unicorn."--Publishers Weekly. the significance of the black
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-317).

Translation of: Le talisman de la Villette.