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Inspector Lafarge 05 The Serpentine Detective

✍ Scribed by Pirate Irwin

Book ID: 112124361
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Weight: 178 KB
Category: Fiction
ASIN: B093WT32T3

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✦ Synopsis

Ghosts of the past return to haunt Chief Inspector Gaston Lafarge - a cognac-loving detective who earned powerful enemies in the Vichy regime and the Resistance - just when he thought his life had at last settled down. Hal Rosenberg, whose life Lefarge saved in the round-up of the Jews in Paris in July 1942, has returned. Rosenberg, formerly an art gallery owner, is arrested for the murder of Otto Meissner, whom Rosenberg alleges worked with the Nazis. Lafarge believes his friend is innocent, however. Lafarge's investigation is hindered by him also being subject to a contract on his life and that of his family. He suspects those behind it are former Vichy paladins like the ruthlessly ambitious former head of the police Rene Bousquet, who is in prison awaiting trial. Betrayal stalks him every step of the way as the trail to clear Rosenberg's name leads Lafarge to Nuremberg and a potential unlikely saviour.

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