The Song Peddler of the Pont Neuf

✍ Scribed by Laura Lebow

• Book ID: 100162915
• Publisher: Settecento Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 142 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1732497214

✦ Synopsis

Paris, 1788: Facing bankruptcy after years of expensive wars, King Louis XVI calls a meeting of the Estates General, the ancient French legislature which has not met in 174 years. The city hums with talk about modernizing the assembly and changing France into a constitutional monarchy.

Paul Gastebois, a confidential inquirer, isn't interested in politics. He's busy with the daily tedium of detective work--following foreign diplomats for the Parisian police and helping artisanal guilds enforce their rules. He'd like to make a name for himself solving crimes, but few cases have come his way. Then Paul is hired to find a song peddler who sang bawdy songs to crowds on the Pont Neuf. The missing man had seen someone from his past on the bridge, and had vanished a few weeks later.

As Paul searches Paris for the song peddler, his investigation leads him into the world of underground publishing, where anonymous writers...