L'ombre du Baron Author:anthony Morton Book in French. Translated from English by Claire Seguin. A. Morton create a new persona in literature, an honest merchant, but who is also a great gentlemen-thief. John Mannering, as a jeweler, attract the attention of gangsters but in his persona of the Baron, the police. The baron's art consistes to oppose his diverse adversaries so they neu... more »tralize themselves.« less