Murder In Montparnasse

This too is another book on the so-called Lost Generation of 1920's Paris. However, in this case, it is fiction. And although the title leads you to believe that it is a murder mystery, murder is only a small part of the book. It is actually about a reporter who falls in with many of the famous Brit......more

I enjoyed this book, but it was difficult to follow at times. The story started out really intense, but it didn't maintain the same intensity throughout. There were times, however, that the intensity came back ... but only in snippets. This book took place in France and there was quite a bit of the......more

Mystery takes a back seat to setting (Paris, 1925) and character (the literary community living in Paris at the time - Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and others). Having picked up the book because of the jacket description of a Jack-the-Ripper killer stalking Paris, I was disappointed because the mystery of......more

This novel follows a group of friends in Paris in the 1920s with many of the characters based on literary figures. I have to admit that this book might not be to everyone's taste because it took quite a while to get to the murder because the author focused so much early on the characters, their pers......more

This is less a mystery and more a ripping good story that contains a so-so mystery. Some famous ex-patriots have been renamed, but the "editor" tells you who these people are right at the beginning. The characters are fascinating. The dialogue is pithy. The pacing is excellent. The drawing-room-type......more