The Black Tower : A Novel Paperback - 2009
by Louis Bayard
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- Paperback
From the acclaimed author of "Mr. Timothy" and "The Pale Blue Eye" comes another historical thriller. This time, Bayard constructs a pitch-perfect novel featuring Eugene Francois Vidocq, a criminal who transforms himself into one of the world's greatest detectives.
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- Title The Black Tower : A Novel
- Author Louis Bayard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First paperback
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, NY USA
- Date 2009
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0061173517I5N00
- ISBN 9780061173516 / 0061173517
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.08 x 6.52 x 0.91 in (20.52 x 16.56 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008005059
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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 1818--and 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 shocking--and 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.