A spotless house in Grange Street in Paris hides a sorry reputation, and from it the story opens out into a world of speculators and conspirators. At its centre is Henrietta, a girl driven from her home and left to fend for herself, as schemers and fortune-hunters circle around her and her family’s secrets.
A long, twisting melodrama of greed by the French writer who invented the detective Lecoq and helped found the crime novel. Download the free EPUB.