Paris, 1998. A bookseller has been killed in his shop. The only clues to be found by the corpse are two Jules Verne's original editions that have been mangled.
Milo Jassy, bouquiniste along the Seine, must solve the case for he might become a victim himself...
Claude Izner is the pen name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, who are both second-hand booksellers along the Seine.