Book Description
"Parisians shut their doors tightly that autumn. Women carried their keys and arranged to be escorted through the dark streets leading to their homes. Even on the boulevards, especially in the Quarter, people kept to the brightly lit cafes and perhaps laughed more metallically because of Jack, who was out there, somewhere, waiting."
An evocative historical novel and a suspenseful murder mystery, Murder in Montparnasse offers a credible explanation for a puzzle that has plagued literary sleuths for decades: What really happened to the lost Hemingway manuscripts?
About the Author
Howard Engel was a producer for the CBC for many years.
The Cooperman Variations is his tenth Benny Cooperman novel, and he has also written
Murder in Montparnasse and
Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell, a Sherlockian delight. A founding member of the Crime Writers of Canada, Howard Engel won the 1990 Harbourfront Festival Prize for Canadian Literature and the 1984 Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction. He was recently the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Culture at the University of Toronto.
