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The Marais Assassin
The Paris Bookshop Mysteries (Book 4)
- Author
- Claude Izner
- Narrator
- Tim Drew
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publish Date
- 17 September 2026
- Run Time
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Spring, 1892. A series of anarchist bombings have struck terror across Paris. In the chaos, the city's beloved Elzévir bookshop suffers a break-in: but the thief runs away with only a worthless decorative goblet. Then, the aristocratic Englishwoman who entrusted it to the bookshop is murdered.
It seems this goblet has a secret worth killing for. As the body count rises, Victor Legris and the Elzévir booksellers track the murderer across a city wracked by political turmoil in a deadly race to uncover the truth.
Critics Review
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'A sturdy marriage of frothy style and abundant period detail, from obligatory tidbits about Toulouse-Lautrec and the Moulin Rouge to surprising sidelights on little-known but interesting people and ...'
Kirkus Reviews
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'A pleasing story with well-executed characters, The Marais Assassin also provides a splendid tour of the Paris of another era'
Richmond Times Dispatch
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'Claude Izner... brilliantly evokes 1890s Paris... in a cracking, highly satisfying yarn'
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Claude Izner
- Narrator
- Tim Drew
- Duration
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9781805336976
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries
Synopsis
Spring, 1892. A series of anarchist bombings have struck terror across Paris. In the chaos, the city's beloved Elzévir bookshop suffers a break-in: but the thief runs away with only a worthless decorative goblet. Then, the aristocratic Englishwoman who entrusted it to the bookshop is murdered. It seems this goblet has a secret worth killing for. As the body count rises, Victor Legris and the Elzévir booksellers track the murderer across a city wracked by political turmoil in a deadly race to uncover the truth.
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