It’s 15 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Théâtre du Grand-Guignol: 20 bis, rue Chaptal   The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was at the end of a tight little cul de sac a couple of streets away from the garish facades of Clichy…

  It’s 16 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.     Bricktop outside of one of her clubs in Paris   From page 111: Bricktop’s was jumping.  Even so, the owner spotted him three steps inside the door and leapt down from her perch…

  It’s 17 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Janet Flanner & Ernest Hemingway, Café aux Deux-Magots, 6 Place Saint-Germain des Prés.   From page 347: On the edges of her group, [Stuyvesant] found someone who had been talking to someone who had seen…

  It’s 18 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Le Boeuf sur le Toit by Jean Hugo   From page 348: Le Boeuf sur le Toit was, despite its Dada-esque name, a bar with hot jazz and a wide mix of patrons.  …

  It’s 19 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Café le Sélect: 99 Bd de Montparnasse.   From page 219: The Dôme and Rotonde were closed, their tables stacked and dark, but the Select was going strong.  The wild revels had changed, giving…

  It’s 20 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Café de la Rotonde: 103 Bd de Montparnasse   From page 94: [Stuyvesant] walked up to the Rotonde terrace, ordering coffee and tackling the morning’s Figaro.   Ahh, French coffee. The carafe is served…

  It’s 21 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.    Ernest Hemingway   From page 347: Back at the Coupole, a visiting Canadian Stuyvesant had met the week before detached himself from Kiki’s crowd to head for the pissoir.  Stuyvesant emptied his glass and…

  It’s 22 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris.       From page 218: The Dôme was the most American of the American-driven cafes on the boulevard Montparnasse. Every second shouting mouth bore a New York accent, and the rest were from Chicago or Jersey.  …

  It’s 23 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   From page 68: He spotted the pink geraniums on the rue Monge. Inside the brasserie mingled the clean smells of Pernod, shellfish, and garlic.     The gamut of dining in Paris runs from café…