Death at Versailles

by Jakeman, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780749005894
• ISBN10: 0749005890
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Intl Pub Marketing

Summary

Versailles in August and the small Paris suburb is crowded with tourists visiting the Sun King's famous Ch'teau. Following her successful conviction of a powerful south-coast gangster, examining magistrate Cecile Galant has been transferred to the region for her own safety. Her workload is heavy: there's the aristocrat accused of shoplifting who is pleading not guilty despite the overwhelming evidence against him, a girl who appears to have gone missing without trace, and a bizarre case in the grounds of the Ch'teau. Whilst walking through the gardens of Versailles, Marina Cassatt, a student from Oxford, witnessed the murder a young man. To complicate matters further, the boy she saw dying at her feet appeared to be dressed in eighteenth century costume; by the time the police arrive on the scene all traces of the crime have disappeared. Could what Marina saw be linked to the unusual incident that took place in the Ch'teau grounds in 1901, when two female academics from Oxford claimed to have travelled into the past as they walked around the Petit Trianon? As the action transfers from France to Oxford, Death in Versailles combines historical intrigue with a contemporary plotting to provide an entertaining and compelling crime novel.