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Australian praise:
‘By turns comforting and confronting, it s a prizewinner in its original Spanish. There should be more like it for aficionados of crime fiction’ Courier Mail
Praise for ‘The Paris Enigma’:
‘Discriminating general readers as well as whodunit fans will enjoying this outstanding puzzler... de Santis conjures up a veritable Justice league of master sleuths... intelligent and entertaining’ Publishers Weekly
‘A beguiling historical whodunit’ New York Times
‘Murder and mayhem... colourful characters and cases create a hazy atmosphere of intelligent escapism’ Washington Post
‘Luminous thriller... tightly spun and a quick read, thanks to the able translation’ Wall St Journal
‘Provokes thought as well as entertainment’ Associated Press
In the tradition of The Alienist and The Devil in the White City comes a gripping, atmospheric tale of murder and the art of crime solving.
Paris, 1889: in anticipation of the World's Fair and the opening of Monsieur Eiffel's tower, a society of the world's most famous detectives convenes as a single body for the very first time. Sent in place of a conspicuously absent Renato Craig, founding member of The Twelve, his novice assistant Sigmundo Salvatrio arrives, bearing a secret message for the brilliant, brooding Viktor Arzaky, Craig's best friend and the society's cofounder. When one of The Twelve is discovered murdered at the Tower's base--the first in a series of grisly slayings--it falls to Arzaky and Salvatrio, the last remaining student of Craig's famed Academy for Detectives in Buenos Aires, to find and stop the killer. But what the two discover as they race around fin-de-siecle Paris--encountering secret societies, philosophical puzzles, and an imperiled, dangerously beautiful woman--has shattering consequences that will alter the fate of their precious brotherhood forever.
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