The Crypt Thief
A Hugo Marston Novel
Seventh Street Books · Print & ebook · May 7, 2013
It’s summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in Père Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison’s grave.
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- Who it’s for
- A locked-down Paris cemetery, stolen bones, and a case that grows stranger by the hour.
- Genres
- International Crime Fiction, Suspense, Crime Fiction
- Published
- Seventh Street Books, May 7, 2013
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It’s summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in Père Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison’s grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, flitting in and out like a ghost, and breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears under the cover of night with part of her skeleton.
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One of the dead tourists is an American and the other is a woman linked to a suspected terrorist; so the US ambassador sends his best man and the embassy’s head of security—Hugo Marston—to help the French police with their investigation. When the thief breaks into another crypt at a different cemetery, stealing bones from a second famed dancer, Hugo is stumped. How does this killer operate unseen? And why is he stealing the bones of once-famous can-can girls? Hugo cracks the secrets of the graveyards but soon realizes that old bones aren’t all this killer wants. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition.
Graveyard Intrigue
A locked-down Paris cemetery, stolen bones, and a case that grows stranger by the hour.
Come here for
- A Paris cemetery mystery with a macabre edge
- A detective story woven through the city’s graveyards
Expect
- International crime with a shadowy, suspenseful feel
- An investigation driven by eerie clues and unsettling questions
Where it sits
| International Crime Fiction | 79% |
|---|---|
| Suspense | 30% |
| Crime Fiction | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- International Crime Fiction
- Private Eye Fiction
- Crime Fiction
- Authors
- Mark Pryor
- Publisher
- Seventh Street Books
- Published
- May 7, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- International Crime Fiction