Baudelaire's revenge
By: Bob van Laerhoven ; translated from the Dutch by Brian Doyle
Contributors: Doyle, Brian
Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781605985480
Subjects: Fiction; Murder; Investigation; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; History
Work titles: Wraak van Baudelaire
Description: "As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils [1870 Paris], workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les fleurs du mal on each corpse, written in the poet's exact handwriting"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Translation of: De wraak van Baudelaire.

Includes bibliographical references (page 268).