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Baudelaire's revenge / Bob van Laerhoven ; translated from the Dutch by Brian Doyle.

By: Language: English Original language: Dutch Publication details: New York : Pegasus Crime , 2014.Description: 268 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781605985480
  • 1605985481
Uniform titles:
  • Wraak van Baudelaire. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils [1870 Paris], workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les fleurs du mal on each corpse, written in the poet's exact handwriting"--Dust jacket flap.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves FIC VANL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906000974395

"A novel"--Jacket.

Translation of: De wraak van Baudelaire.

Includes bibliographical references.

"As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils [1870 Paris], workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les fleurs du mal on each corpse, written in the poet's exact handwriting"--Dust jacket flap.

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