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Der große neue historische Titel von Bestsellerautorin Marie Lacrosse um das Vergnüngungsviertel Montmartre Paris im Sommer 1866: Elise Lambert und Valérie Dumas werden am selben Tag geboren. Sonst haben die beiden Mädchen nicht viel gemeinsam. Elise, Tochter einer einfachen Wäscherin, wächst in Armut auf dem Hügel von Montmartre auf. Valérie hingegen ist die Tochter eines wohlhabenden Kunsthändlers vom Boulevard de Clichy. In einer Zeit, in der Frauen kaum Möglichkeiten haben, hegen die beiden große Träume.

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the 20th century. In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic talent ever assembled. It begins in October 1900, as a teenage Pablo Picasso, eager for fame and fortune, first makes his way up the hillside of Paris’s famous windmill-topped district.

This enchanting and inspiring love story begins in the romantic Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. As Michelle, a young and spirited Parisian woman, struggles with her crutches down the treacherous Abbesses stairs, she loses her balance and begins to fall just as John passes by. Thanks to his quick actions, she is saved from a potentially fatal fall down the long and winding stairway. Looking into her beautiful and hypnotic eyes, asking if she is all right, he immediately falls in love.

Kein ruhiger Sommer für Commissaire Geneviève Morel. Auf einer der letzten Windmühlen am Montmartre wird die gekreuzigte Leiche einer Moulin-Rouge-Tänzerin gefunden - im Engelskostüm. Kurz darauf stirbt noch ein zweiter „Engel“. Die Kommissarin stürzt sich in die Ermittlungen und trifft auf eine Mauer des Schweigens, selbst in ihren eigenen Reihen. Welche Geheimnisse hüteten die Engel, dass niemand an der Aufklärung der Morde interessiert zu sein scheint? Und was führt Genevièves Großmutter Mamie schon wieder im Schilde?

Amid the hustle and bustle of the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition, workers discover the mutilated corpse of a popular model and Moulin Rouge Can-Can dancer in a Montmartre sewer. Hysterical rumors swirl that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel, and Inspector Achille Lefebvre enters the Parisian underworld to track down the brutal killer. His suspects are the artist Toulouse-Lautrec, an acrobat at the Circus Fernando named Jojo, and Sir Henry Collingwood, a mysterious English gynecologist and amateur artist.

October 1924. After their magical wedding, Kitty Worthington and her husband, Inspector Robert Crawford Sinclair, head to Paris for their honeymoon. Art museums, haute couture, French cuisine. Wondrous nights. It’s everything Kitty has always dreamed of and more. But then a body drops putting a damper on things. At least this time, it’s a matter for the French police. There’s no need for Kitty and Robert to get involved. Things change, however, when a dear friend becomes the chief suspect, and she begs Kitty for help. Unable to walk away, she and Robert agree to investigate.

Who did the deed? Having chanced upon some clues, budding sleuth Lottie tries to make sense of mysterious conversations and bare-faced lies. She's assisted by her trusty dog, Rosie, and the local delivery boy. But when a second body is found, her theories come undone.

La Chouette, le Maître d'école et leurs comparses n'ont pas dit leur dernier mot et continuent d'œuvrer dans l'ombre à leur terrible besogne tandis que Rodolphe, lumineux et bienveillant, poursuit la quête de sa fille disparue... "Les mystères de Paris" est un magistral roman d'aventure populaire qui a tenu la France entière en haleine pendant plus d'un an au milieu du XIXème siècle. Il met en scène les mœurs violentes des voyous des bas-fonds parisiens, dont il a contribué à populariser l'argot.

Tired of the political machinations of his egotistical fellow wizards, Benelaius retires from the College of War Wizards to take up residency in Cormyr, where he lives peacefully until he and his legman, Jasper, are forced to investigate the murder of a messenger from King Azoun.

A winter wedding. Venice, 1923. Posie Parker, London’s premier female private detective, is getting married. But on arrival in Venice, Posie finds she is walking into a nightmare. Her lodgings on the Grand Canal are consumed by fire, her famous fiancé is preoccupied, and most bizarrely of all, her hostess, the Countess Romagnoli, confesses she has a stalker and fears for her life.