On a stormy October evening the servants of the Hôtel de Chalusse in the Rue de Courcelles learn that their master has been struck down. When the Count dies, his vast fortune cannot be found, and Marguerite, the young woman raised under his roof, is left exposed to suspicion and to a crowd of fortune-hunters, card-sharps and false friends across Second Empire Paris.
Gaboriau, creator of Monsieur Lecoq and a founder of the French detective novel, at full stretch in a tale of greed and intrigue. Download the free EPUB.