The Black Tower

Louis Bayard

first published 2008 William Morrow, 2008 352 pages

Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France’s most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mystery—the fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI.Hector Carpentier, a m...

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Black Tower edition · 2009 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061982682
Black Tower edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061700019
The orphan in the tower edition · 2008 · William Morrow · 352 pages · 9780061173509
The Black Tower ebook · 2008 · HarperCollins · 9780061699986
Black Tower edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061700026
Black Tower edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061700033
Black Tower edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061699993

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