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Win a signed set of The Victor Legris Mysteries [closed]

Read an extract from Death on the Eiffel Tower and you could win the first three Victor Legris adventures, historical crime fiction set in fin-de-siècle Paris.

A letter from Laurence Lefèvre and Liliane Korb

Claude IznerDear all,

We are delighted that our books are to be published in English. We ourselves love the literature of your country – from Shakespeare to Nick Hornby via Jane Austen, the Brontës and many others! Our favourite thriller writers are Agatha Christie and PD James and, of course, Conan Doyle.

For us London has the attraction of an exotic city, even though it is familiar to us. We have been there many times and have delighted in tracking down second-hand and antiquarian books on Portobello Road or Charing Cross Road – because in addition to our writing, we have both been booksellers on the banks of the Seine, as were our parents before us.

So when we thought of writing a series of thrillers it was only natural that we should create a bookseller-sleuth and that our bookseller, Victor Legris should have an English mother and spend his youth in London, where his father ran a bookshop on Sloane Square and also that Victor’s adoptive father, Kenji Mori, should have spent many years in your capital. All these elements just felt right to us. As for the period, although we wanted to describe Paris of the Belle Époque, even here Britain shows its influence. London in the 1890’s shows through like a watermark beneath fin-de-siècle Paris.

So what joy to discover that our characters including Victor, his companion Tasha, his assistant Joseph, Kenji Mori and the circle of friends we gave them, were to cross the Channel to try to win over the British public! It will be the fulfilment of a childhood dream to see our books on your shelves and to feel a little British ourselves.

So a heartfelt thank you to all of you who work so hard to promote writing.

With very best wishes

Laurence Lefèvre and Liliane Korb

Eiffel TowerRead an extract from Murder on the Eiffel Tower, the first Victor Legris mystery

Read extract (PDF)

Win the first three Victor Legris Mysteries

Courtesy of the folk at Gallic Books, you could win a set of the first three Victor Legris books, signed by the authors:

  • Murder on the Eiffel Tower
  • The Père-Lachaise Mystery
  • The Montmartre Investigation

To win, answer the following question by reading the PDF extract from Book 1 supplied above:

What is the last thing that Jean Méring sees?

  • A dandelion
  • A daffodil
  • A daisy
No more submissions accepted at this time.

Terms and conditions

  1. Closing date for entries: 3rd December 2009.
  2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
  3. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
  4. The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
  5. Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookhugger. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  6. The winner’s name(s) may be published on the Bookhugger website after the closing date of the competition.
  7. The competition is not open to Bookhugger employees and their families, or to employees of Bookhugger publishers and their families.
  8. Win or lose, we’ll always have Paris.

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