The artist of the missing
By: Paul LaFarge ; illustrations by Stephen Alcorn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Description: Frank, a young artist, arrives in the city hoping to unravel the mystery of his parents' disappearance. He begins working as a washer of robes at a hotel for itinerant judges. There he meets and falls in love with Prudence, a forensic photographer whose pictures reveal the secrets of the dead.

When Prudence disappears, Frank sets out in search of her, a quest that leads him into the shadowy world of a revolutionary salon, then to prison, and, finally to discover the city's strange secrets and the secrets of his own heart.