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The Death of Abbe Didier

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14th December 2015

Price: £4.99

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781471918186

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Two dramatically contrasting episodes face Inspector Gautier in his latest mystery: the death by stabbing of the vicar of the fashionable church of Saint Clothilde in the confessional box; and the theft of the Duchesse de Paiva’s diamond necklace during the extravagant fête thrown by Armand de Saules to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of his daughter, Marie-Thérèse.

As the inspector investigates Marie-Thérèse’s clandestine affair with a somewhat discreditable Italian poet, Daniele Pontana, and her rejection of her parents’ choice for a husband, Gautier discovers the two crimes are strangely connected. As is a third, the murder of Pontana’s valet Ponzi . . .