An Early History of Paris Sleuths Extraordinaire. On an old borrowed map hidden under her bed, Francine had scribbled in bright blue crayon "the other side of the world." Born with an exceptional curiosity in a small town jam-packed with well...
People often ask me, "How did Mrs. Duchesney become a famous Paris sleuth?" I tell them it should have been easy to predict that Francine Robinsworth Duchesney would find success doing something unexpected of a young woman from a small town i...
People often ask me, "How did Louie Bertrand become a famous Paris sleuth?" For our first interview, Louie Bertrand agreed to meet me at a café at one o'clock in the afternoon for "le petit dejeuner." This should have been my fir...
In Paris, there were simply too many beautiful women hiding too many secrets, and this case was becoming too personal and too intriguing for Mrs. Duchesney to solve on her own. There was only one name on the engraved invitation - "Louie Arnaud Be...
In desperation, she wrote, “Meet me in Paris.” He would have said, “Yes.” But, he never received her letter. Who did? Les grandes vacances, the six-week summer exodus, is about to begin, taking Paris sleuth Louie Bertrand to sunny beaches, wh...
In Paris, two bodies have been found floating in the river. Side-by-side, the two friends are photographed smiling up into the Heavens as if this had been nothing more than another Saturday spent happily fishing. Later, a third unclaimed body will tu...
In the pre-dawn rain, a shivering little bird of a woman appears at the door of a famous Paris sleuth to ask for help in selling an unknown masterpiece by the artist-magician Kizermeirhoff. Mrs. Duchesney asks her visitor, "Did you steal it?"...
A search for immortality? Did this bring people to Paris in the summer or was their search for something more lasting?" perhaps, love, romance, the perfect martini? When bouquets show up at Mrs. Duchesney’s door four Sundays in a row with no ca...
A person could not boast of being in Paris without spending one night at Caveau des Trésors, the century-old underground jazz club and quintessential address for the best jazz musicians in the world. Caveau des Trésors, where the famous and the inf...