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The black tower

Vidocq! Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818'and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former medical student living in his mother's Latin Quarter boardinghouse, Hector finds himself dragged into a dangerous mystery surrounding the fate of the dauphin, the ten-year-old son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette presumed to have suffered a cruel death years earlier in Paris's dreaded Temple. But the truth of what happened may be even more shocking'and it will fall to an aimless young man and the most feared detective in Paris to see justice done for a frightened little boy in a black tower . . . no matter what the cost.

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  • ""Vidocq! master of disguise and chief of a newly created plain-clothes police force, Vidocq, is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818 - and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it."--Back cover."
  • "Vidocq! Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818'and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former medical student living in his mother's Latin Quarter boardinghouse, Hector finds himself dragged into a dangerous mystery surrounding the fate of the dauphin, the ten-year-old son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette presumed to have suffered a cruel death years earlier in Paris's dreaded Temple. But the truth of what happened may be even more shocking'and it will fall to an aimless young man and the most feared detective in Paris to see justice done for a frightened little boy in a black tower . . . no matter what the cost."@en
  • "Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette."
  • "Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette."@en
  • "Vidocq, the founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, tries to discover the fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI with the help of Hector Carpentier, a medical student involved in a murder Vidocq is assigned to investigate."@en
  • "Dans le Paris de 1818, Hector Carpentier, jeune étudiant en médecine, est soupçonné de meurtre. François Eugène Vidocq devra mettre en oeuvre tous ses talents quand il comprend que l'affaire est liée à la disparition de Louis XVII, officiellement décédé en 1795 à la prison du Temple."

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  • "Historical novels"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Adventure novels"
  • "Translations"
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Historické romány"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Dobrodružné romány"
  • "American fiction"

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  • "The black tower"
  • "The black tower"@en
  • "La tour noire"
  • "Die Geheimnisse des schwarzen Turms : ein Roman aus dem Paris des Jahres 1818"
  • "La torre negra"
  • "Černá věž"
  • "Het weeskind"
  • "Chernai︠a︡ bashni︠a︡"
  • "Черная башня"
  • "The black tower : a novel"

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