First Spring in Paris
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In 1946 Daisy and her friend Beatrice decided to move to Paris, because they were fed up with limping London, still crippled and depressed in the aftermath of the war. And indeed, in the spring of that year, Paris was the place to beβisnβt it always? In particular, some very interesting things were going on in Saint-Germain-des-PrΓ©s: existentialism, free love, and American jazz throbbing through the night in the cellar clubs.
Then one day, just as the two were settling into a new life, a little boy stepped forward in the street and said, βCan you come with me? My mummy is all funny.β And he led them to a garret where they found his motherβs dead body.
A very disturbing murder case was thrown in their path, and one thing leading to another, Daisy Hayes, blind sleuth extraordinaire, had to rise to the challenge as never before.
βAs a great admirer of Simenon and his Maigret mysteries, Nick Aaron now introduces the βCommissaire Divisionnaireβ Simonetti from the Parisian βBrigade Criminelleβ. A gentle spoof and a grudging recognition of debt.β β The Weekly Banner
This 63k novel is a stand-alone in the Blind Sleuth series
Keywords: Left bank, Zazous, Sartre, Camus, The Stranger, The Outsider
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Nick Aaron is Dutch, but he was born in South Africa (1956), where he attended a British-style boarding school, in Pietersburg, Transvaal. Later he lived in Lausanne (Switzerland), in Rotterdam, Luxembourg and Belgium. He worked for the European Parliament as a printer and proofreader. Currently he's retired and lives in Malines.
Recently, after writing in Dutch and French for many years, the author went back to the language of his mid-century South African childhood. A potential global readership was the incentive; the trigger was the character of Daisy Hayes, who asserted herself in his mind wholly formed.
Check out Nick's author page at www.nickaaronauthor.com
