Philippe Chlous

La valse des damnés

The Waltz of The Damned

May 5, 2022
Novel
352 pages
19,90 €
9782358878708
978-2-3588-7870-8
																Philippe Chlous, La valse des damnés
																Philippe Chlous, La valse des damnés

1898, in Upper East Side, James Harding is dying. His enemies and associates are on the lookout. The millionaire has to settle his estate and asks for Samuel Sullivan’s help. This detective, a former comrade in arms, must go to Paris to find his two heirs. But the situation is complicated: the debates around the Dreyfus Affair have brought France close to civil war.

His son, William Harding, has become friend with young anti-Semitic bourgeois. His daughter, Emilie, is a young idealist and the mistress of a Jewish painter. She mysteriously disappears. This case is much more complex and dangerous than the millionaire had let on to Samuel Sullivan.

Philippe Chlous plunges the reader into a fascinating investigation in troubled fin-de-siècle Paris, amid the clash of bombs and swords.

The author

Philippe Chlous is a journalist, a scriptwriter and a documentary producer. His novel Les Vents barbares was inspired by his encounters with child soldiers during his reporting. La Valse des damnés is his second novel.

Strong points

A historical detective novel full of breathless twists.

In the tradition of Gwenaël Bulteau’s La République des faibles, a nuanced portrait of a divided France under the Third Republic.

May 5, 2022
Novel
352 pages
19,90 €
9782358878708
978-2-3588-7870-8