Murder on The Eiffel Tower is the first in a promising new series from Claude Izner. Izner is a pseudonym for sisters and Parisian booksellers Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre.
The brand-new, shiny Eiffel Tower is the pride and glory of the 1889 World Exposition. But one sunny afternoon, as visitors are crowding the viewing platforms, a woman collapses and dies on this great Paris landmark. Can a bee sting really be the cause of death? Or is there a more sinister explanation?
Young bookseller Victor Legris witnesses the woman’s death. Appalled by the media coverage of the event, he is determined to find out what actually happened and is caught in a race against time when there are more mysterious deaths.
Paris is the home of a number of detectives, the most famous being George Simenon’s Jules Maigret. The Maigret stories are set in the 1950s and 1960s.
Visit the official Maigret website for an interesting look at the detective and his world.
Cara Black’s protagonist Aimée Leduc is the owner of a detective agency specializing in corporate security. The New York Times Book Review has said “Aimée is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city’s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed.”
You can find out more about Cara Black's Paris on the author’s website.
Fred Vargas’ detective is Chief Inspector Adamsberg. Publishers Weekly describes Adamsberg as “an endearing oddball sleuth in the tradition of John Dickson Carr's Henry Merrivale.” Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, born in 1957 in Paris. The surname Vargas is in honor of the Ava Gardner character in The Barefoot Contessa!
Visit the Detectives Beyond Borders website for an article on Fred Vargas’ France.
