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The Black Tower
The Black Tower
Author: Louis Bayard
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 boa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061173516
ISBN-10: 0061173517
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 1
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I finished The Black Tower by Louis Bayard. This is the first of his books I have read.

It has the crass multi faceted Vidocq the father of modern investigative techniques, teaming up with the young Dr. Carpentier whose father was Physician to the children of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette while they were imprisoned in the Temple.

Called to investigate the murder of a man with Dr. Carpentiers name and address found with the body, Vidocq finds he is not just investigating a murder but the possibility that the young Dauphin has some how survived, against all odds.

It is a imaginative and very well written treatment of the myth, completely plausible with just enough doubt to understand why people believed for so long that he could have survived. A great ending twist that made me smile. I enjoyed it very much. I have Mr. Timothy on my TBR shelf and will be reading that soon, Bayard will be an auto buy for me. I have also been told that the audio version is excellent narrated by Simon Vance.
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