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The Black Tower
The Black Tower: A Novel | Louis Bayard
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Vidocq! Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former medical student living in his mother's Latin Quarter boardinghouse, Hector finds himself dragged into a dangerous mystery surrounding the fate of the dauphin, the ten-year-old son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette presumed to have suffered a cruel death years earlier in Paris's dreaded Temple. But the truth of what happened may be even more shockingand it will fall to an aimless young man and the most feared detective in Paris to see justice done for a frightened little boy in a black tower . . . no matter what the cost.
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CaitlinR
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Set in Paris during the Restoration, or as one of the characters calls it “The Great Forgetting.” Vidoq, founder of the plainclothes police and Hector Carpenter, a medical student become tangled up in tracking the fate of the Dauphin Louis-Charles. If found, he would become Louis the XVII, a problem given that there is now a Louis the XVIII. Just when they reveal the truth there‘s a great twist.

Thoroughly enjoyed this mystery.

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AAdamson
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#backpackeurope Paris, here I come—1818 Paris that is! Winging my way to Charles deGaulle Airport. I‘ll be reading The Black Tower.

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drokka
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Listening to this while watching for anything that pops up for work, while stitching this new long project. #LitsyStitchers #audiostitching

writerlibrarian Beautiful xstitch. I haven't xstitch in 2 years. Moving house, etc. I have to get my stitching box out in 2017. 8y
drokka @writerlibrarian just got back into it in the past couple of years. I hadn't stitched anything in nearly a decade before that. Audiobooks make it a success. 8y
writerlibrarian I favor podcasts myself while knitting. I'll probably try them out wit xstitch too. 8y
minkyb Beautiful cross stitching. I don't stitch much anymore but I did pass on the passion to my daughter. 8y
Mommamanzi I love stitching! 8y
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MamaGina
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Twocougs I have the same Shakespeare and Co bookmark😍 8y
MamaGina I was hoping someone would recognize it!🤓 8y
BookBabe Good? 8y
MamaGina Yes @BookBabe it's excellent so far! 8y
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