Belle-epoque Paris is brought vividly to life once more, in this fifth adventure for the sleuthing bookseller. In the turbulent Parisian summer of 1893, Victor Legris has faithfully promised his lover Tasha that he will give up the dangerous pastime of amateur detective work to concentrate on selling books. But a murderer is at large in Paris, intent on revenge for events that took place many years before during the Commune. And when a bookbinder friend of Victor's becomes the latest victim of the mysterious Leopard, the young bookseller feels impelled to uncover the identity of the Batignolles predator. AUTHOR Claude Iznor is the pen-name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre. Both booksellers on the banks of the Seine, they are experts on nineteenth-century Paris. They have co-written all the titles in the Victor Legris series. REVIEWS ‘Claude Izner brillliantly evokes 1890s Paris'- Guardian “Full of pungent period detail…a satisfying convoluted yarn.” Observer. “A charming journey through the life and intellectual times of an era” Le Monde SELLING POINTS Fifth in the award-winning series of Parisian murder mysteries Claude Izner has excerpts quoted in Paris City-Lit 9780955970009