P. A Clancy
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
""Ladies and gentlemen, alas! The Emperor is dead." The news from St. Helena goes out across Europe, but in fact Napoleon has not died. By means of an ingenious escape, he has returned to the Continent, leaving an impersonator on St. Helena, and it is this double who has unexpectedly and very problematically passed away. Traveling incognito, the emperor experiences a series of bizarre adventures that bring him face-to-face with the myth of Napoleon...
Author
Series
Commissaire Laviolette mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In a small, peaceful village in Provence, the principal source of income is the cultivation and sale of truffles. When Commissaire Laviolette arrives to investigate why several of the town's citizens are missing, it isn't long before their bodies begin to turn up, a tourist is found dead in the freezer of a local French hotel and more bodies are discovered in a family vault in the cemetery. It takes all of the detective's ingenuity to unravel crimes...
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