April Thirtieth — Bernard St. James

She had been the most beautiful woman in Paris…

Suddenly she was lovely no longer, her body sprawled like a broken puppet, the strangler's cord embedded in her neck.

The list of her lovers was long and impressive. She had known financiers and statesmen -- even, it was rumored, the Emperor Napoleon himself.

And when the police began to investigate the men in her life, all of Paris waited gleefully for the greatest scandal of the century to break wide open.