It’s 5 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.     From page 89: The welcome, the voices—just the company of Mme Lemestre’s ladies teased at him like a cool breeze.  He even had the money for a full night of pampering.   The…

  It’s 6 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here. Montparnasse Cemetery   From page 61: “His studio is down near Denfert-Rochereau….” “Isn’t that across from the Montparnasse cemetery?” “Yes. Not one of the more cheery cemeteries, I’m afraid.”   Established outside the city center…

  It’s 7 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Cole Porter’s Music Room, Paris   From page 312: [Stuyvesant] began with Cole Porter, the man Sarah had taken care to be standing beside at the strike of the full-moon bell.  Porter lived with…

  It’s 8 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Gertrude Stein (r) & Alice B. Toklas (l) by Man Ray: 27 rue de Fleurus   From page 145: “Why do so few Americans bother to learn the language?  People like that Stein woman—you…

  It’s 9 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Natalie Barney’s house: 20 rue Jacob.   From page 314: One drink wasn’t enough courage to face rue Jacob.  Ten probably wouldn’t be.  [Stuyvesant] did not give himself a chance to chicken out, but…

  It’s 10 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here. LUNA PARK – PARIS FAIRGROUND SCENES – CLICK ON PHOTO TO BE TAKEN TO VIDEO Luna Park   From page 236:  He bought her a pair of red balloons, he won her a doll at…

  It’s 11 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Grand Salon Room, mid-18th century, Paris   From page 161: A century and a half ago, one of the Charmentier family had stripped twenty or thirty kilometers of stone from under the ground to…

  It’s 12 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Catacombs, Paris   From page 88: Practical people, the French.  When some long-forgotten quarries collapsed in the late 1700s and sucked buildings and citizens deep into the earth, at around the same time that…

  It’s 13 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Place Denfert-Rochereau   From page 87: In the daytime, the broad plains of the Place Denfert-Rochereau was a chariot race of taxis and trucks, but at this time of night, [Stuyvesant] and a rag-and-bone…