MYSTERIES IN PARIS

Brown Shoes on Quai Voltaire

Claude Izner

Paris, at the end of the 19th Century. Victor Legris is in his 30's and works as a bookseller. He regularly finds himself confronted with mysteries and that's good luck because he loves acting as a detective.

1898, Paris and the whole of France is divided by the Dreyfuss Affair. Victor Legris finds himself in the mist of a strange puzzle: why are booksellers and regular visitor of the Quai Voltaire killed? And to who belong the brown shoes?

Claude Izner is the pen name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, who are both second-hand booksellers along the Seine.

"A charming journey through the life and intellectual times of an era."  Le Monde

"Witty and creepy."  Independent on Sunday

"Cracking." The Guardian

"Full of pungent period detail." The Observer