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December 2008


The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

Salon and New York Times critic Louis Bayard has spent the last few years carving out a niche for himself as a writer of historical crime stories featuring real-life individuals and characters from classic fiction. In The Black Tower, he turns his attention to the French Restoration and the exploits of Eugène François Vidocq. >>