In a silent house on the Rue St. Gilles in the Marais, a family’s life collapses when its head, a trusted cashier, is accused of a vast embezzlement. Patient investigation drawn through Parisian society reveals how bankers, schemers and respectable men use other people’s money for their own ends.
A late novel by the founder of the French detective story, more social panorama than puzzle, for admirers of Balzac and Wilkie Collins. Download the free EPUB.