The Parisians — Volume 10

A precise, scholarly mind receives a baffling missive that hints at a deadly identity swap between two Parisian women—Madame Marigny and Madame Duval. Their names were traded, a beloved was killed under the wrong name, and the lover of the surviving woman vanished after a secret liaison. The letter compels Graham Vane to abandon his quiet research and confront a tangled web of deception, love, and aristocratic intrigue.

Vane’s quest carries him from the salons of Vienna to the spas of Baden, then to the bustling ports of Italy, following the trail of a charismatic noble known only as Achille. Along the way he meets a retired Italian valet who once served the nobleman, now managing a modest hotel in Genoa. Their conversations, warmed by bottles of Orvieté, begin to reveal the hidden connections that may finally uncover the fate of the missing lady.