Masquerade

New: St Martins Press - Buzz Books, 1998. First Edition Second Printing Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9 1/2. 1923 Paris. Signed on title page To xx Best Wishes. Walter Satterthwait 1/14/99. Dust jacket protected with Brodart and $22.95 price is unclipped. Phil Beaumont and Jane Turner are investigating the death of a rich American publisher and his German mistress, who were found dead in a locked-room. This mystery involves the Pinkerton operatives with the Lost Generation in Paris, including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. In their search for the truth they move from saloon to salon, from the sewers and catacombs to elegant cafes and night spots. Along the way they expatriate luminaries like Hemingway and Stein as well as a young Englishwoman who writes mystery novels and a stolid, pipe-smoking French police inspector who knows a great recipe for coq au vin. Dark forces are aligned against them, enemies are closing in and it looks as though they may never leave the City of Lights alive. A sequel to Escapade --- two of Satterthwait's best.