Overview
At a fashionable salon, Parisians line up to have their fortunes told by Ric Lazareās amazing machine. The predictions arrive with unerring accuracy, as if the invention were imbued with some sort of wondrous sorcery. The police, however, have a different opinion. They suspect that Lazare is a con man. Accordingly, theyāve sent one of their own to investigate. Unfortunately, the man they send is Paul Picard.
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His methods are unconventional. His appetitesāfor lemon tarts, and for prostitutesāare legendary. And he is no stranger to the dark side of Paris. But Inspector Picard is entirely unprepared for the string of murders that pulls him across the continent. As the killerās seductive knot tightens around him, he learns once and for all that thereās more to the glimmering world of high society than first appears.
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Winner of the World Fantasy Award for his novel Doctor Rat, William Kotzwinkle reaffirms his reputation as one of the most captivating and original American authors of the last half-century with this āelegant entertainmentā of magic and mystery in Paris (The Washington Post).
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āGaudy, decadent, smoothly polished, this beguiling novel is .Ā .Ā . a feat of stage magic, well rehearsed and well performed by a fine craftsman.ā āThe New Yorker
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āAlternately dark and glittering .Ā .Ā . a first-rate vaudeville turn.ā āChicago Tribune
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āPure magic.ā āPlayboy
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