This account of the development of the twelve Master Detectives followed by a brutal series of murders in the run-up to the inauguration of Paris's World Fair, you know, the one that unveiled the Eiffel Tower, is ponderous and pondering. The Paris Enigma describes a secret club comprising the top...
An intriguing mystery, with one of the most intelligently crafted plots I've read in a long time. Mostly set in Paris in 1889. At first the narrator is much like an interesting stranger who sits in front of the fireplace with us, telling us his story. The reader enters a unique, sometimes dark w...
I would give this book 4 stars for it's beautiful phrasing but only three for it's content.The mystery is slow in coming and not very mysterious.The conclusion is underwhelming.And the large number of enigmatic characters takes away from the story.So many of them are irrelevant to the tale.Much i...
Un étranger nommé Dalessius arrive dans un port d'Amérique du Sud et raconte sa jeunesse. A 20 ans, après des études sur l'art de la calligraphie, il est engagé par Voltaire pour enquêter sur l'affaire Calas et sur les dominicains qui contrecarrent l'influence des encyclopédistes. Un roman d'aven...
Three big iron stoves tried in vain to heat the room, where the cold seemed to come not from outside but from the statues forgotten in the dark. Those sculptures, once proud exhibits and then inconvenient obstacles, were pushed by the whims of art down into the underground world. Every now and th...
I preferred not to write to the detective himself out of fear that my letter would be left, unopened and unread, on some desk of the now abandoned Academy. I took several long walks during the day, fighting off the feeling that I was in the wrong place. Craig had sent me to help Arzaky, but the P...