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The Man from London

The Man from London
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Dieppe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

On a foggy winter’s evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually scrutinizes the port from his tiny, isolated cabin. When a scuffle on the quayside catches his eye, he is...

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask
  • Author(s): Alexandre Dumas
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas’ celebrated foursome of D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of...

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
  • Author(s): Lucette Lagnado
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Cairo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on...

The Man Who Didn’t Burn

The Man Who Didn’t Burn
  • Author(s): Ian Moore
  • Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Juge Lombard Mystery 1 A KILLER. A SAINT. A TOWN FULL OF WHISPERS.   When an English expat is brutally murdered, his charred corpse left on a Loire Valley hillside, the police turn to juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard...

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Netherlands, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild

The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild
  • Author(s): John Ironmonger
  • Location(s): France, England, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 18/19/20th/21st century/2061

REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES… On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would meet a cruel, untimely death. Years later, strange dreams...

The Maple and the Blue

The Maple and the Blue
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Dieppe, Egypt, Malta
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

No. 111 Squadron prepare to face the murderous skies over Dieppe… Spring, 1942 The Allies and Fighter Command have gone on the offensive. The French town of Dieppe is selected for the first major assault on the European continent....

The Margot Affair

The Margot Affair
  • Author(s): Sanaë Lemoine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

French teenager Margot is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent stage actress and an influential politician. The comings and goings of their unconventional family, in a small Parisian apartment, cast her whole life under a veil of secrecy and...

The Matilda Effect

The Matilda Effect
  • Author(s): Ellie Irving
  • Location(s): England, Hamburg, Paris, Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn’t win the school science fair, she’s devastated –...

The Metropolis Case

The Metropolis Case
  • Author(s): Matthew Gallaway
  • Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1860s

From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the human heart’s yearning for connection. Martin is a forty-year-old lawyer who, despite his success, feels...

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