![]() ![]() In a scene seemingly from another novel, Verity Auger finds herself responsible when her archaeology dig beneath the frozen ruins of some far-flung future Paris results in the death of one of her students. Floyd is not so certain, but he's willing to investigate. Blanchard, the landlord, is certain that the death of Susan White, which the Parisian police have written off as an accident, is murder. When the novel opens, Floyd and Custine are hired by a concerned landlord to investigate the death of one of his tenants. He and his band-mate André Custine earn a supplemental income working as private detectives. Without World War II, technology in this world has stagnated at 1930s levels, and Fascist political parties have gained power in France.įloyd is a part-time jazz musician whose career has stalled since his ex-girlfriend, Greta, left Paris to pursue a musical career touring with another jazz band. ![]() In this world, the Nazi invasion of France failed, and Hitler was deposed by the German High Command. Wendell Floyd is an expatriate American living in an alternate version of 1950s Paris. ![]()
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