Duval and the Empress's Crown (Napoleon's Police Book 5), by Michele McGrath
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The Empress Josephine's crown is missing
Three days before her coronationPraise for Duval and the Empress's Crown:
'I enjoyed the book. You have an ear for the period and it was a real page turner. Didn’t have a clue how it was going to happen. A very imaginative thought, a novel about losing the Empress’s Crown'
Iona.
Police Agent Alain Duval is tasked with finding the crown but time is very short and his suspects many. Present when the crown disappeared are Napoleon's sisters, Princess Elisa, Princess Pauline and Princess Caroline. Are they involved or merely witnesses? Aided by his wife Eugenie and his friends Lefebvre and Fournier, Duval sets out to unravel the mystery.
˃˃˃ Attend the glittering coronation of Napoleon and JosephineEnter the shady world of Napoleonic Paris.
˃˃˃ The Napoleon's Police series contains 15 booksSpanning the years 1800 to 1815.
Three books have been written so far:
Duval and the Infernal Machine (1800)
Duval and the Empress's Crown (1804)
Duval at Waterloo (1815)
˃˃˃ Look out for Duval and the Italian Opera Singer (1806)To be published this summer.
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Duval and the Empress's Crown (Napoleon's Police Book 5), by Michele McGrath- Amazon Sales Rank: #1077487 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Can't Have a Coronation without a Crown By The Just-About-Average Ms. M Alain Duval, happily married to Eugènie, gainfully employed by the Ministry of Police, has apparently spent the four years since his work on identifying the would-be assassinators of First Consul Bonaparte on cases less demanding and certainly less high-profile. But where is the drama in routine police work? Every so often there needs to be a Really Big Crime, just to keep our favorite Parisian policeman on his toes.And we get one, on the eve of Napoleon’s coronation extravaganza. The lovely, jewel-encrusted imperial crown intended for Empress Joséphine vanishes from the workshop of the master jeweler, M. Margueritte. Not a theft in the middle of the night, or early in the morning before even the servants and apprentices were awake. Not as trite as all that. The crown disappears in the middle of the day when the workshop is literally crowded with folks, which means a true sleight of hand has occurred. The jeweler is understandably distraught, knowing he will be blamed for the loss. The Minister of Police, Joseph Fouché, cares only about recovering the crown as quickly as possible—he has about two full days—and with the utmost secrecy and diplomacy. Fouché doesn’t care about the jeweler’s plight, but he cares very much about the emperor’s displeasure, which will be swift and monumental. He also cares about discretion, since three of the people in the workshop at the crucial time were Napoleon’s sisters, Their Imperial Highnesses Elisa, Pauline, and Caroline. Quelle horreur!So Duval is called in, with all sorts of largely unnecessary instructions about the proper protocol for interrogating newly-minted imperial princesses. With his trusted associates, the presentable Fournier and the often disreputable but indispensable Lebebvre, Duval sets off to work his way through the usual suspects—workmen, servants, apprentices, acquaintances, and two of the equerries who had accompanied the princesses to the workshop to inspect their own jewelry. And with as much tact as he can muster, Duval will have to interview the princesses. It is well within his character that the clever, wily, and often dangerous Fouché handed this job off to someone else as quickly as possible. Elisa would have eaten him for breakfast.For those who know something about Napoleon’s family, especially his sisters, this little mystery is right on point. A kind person would compare them to the three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, or a trio of harpies from Greek mythology. Both are accurate, and the sisters are portrayed with just the right amount of historical verisimilitude—Elisa is clever, sharp, and androgynous; Pauline is seductive, and sends poor Duval almost fleeing from her chaise longue in horror; and Caroline has all the charm of a teenaged fishwife from the docks of Marseille.The rest of this brief novel is, like its predecessor, an easy read, but not because it is somehow simple. No, it is well-written, and the historical details, in addition to the sisters, are spot-on. The author, bless her heart, understands that good historical fiction includes correct social norms, the appropriate cultural milieu, street names accurate for the time, and the other minutia of daily living in Paris in December 1804. Any historical novel that I can read without reaching for my virtual highlighter is a rarity. This is one of them.Oh, by the way, the solution to the theft is not only amusing but also very historically probable.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Intrigue in the time of Napoleon By Iona Carroll I have read and enjoyed three of the Duval novels and this is the next one of these popular stories. Alain Duval, a police officer in Napoleonic France is called in to find and apprehend the culprit or culprits who have managed to steal the Empress Josephine’s crown, just days before Napoleon is due to be crowned Emperor. Although the actual theft of the jewel encrusted crown is a work of fiction, the writer manages to engage the reader in a way that suggests the actual event was indeed factual. This is a clever technique and combining this with historical accuracy and understanding of the nuances and social behaviour of the period make for an entertaining read. The reader is kept guessing right till the last pages and can only speculate about how such an event would have been received in the Napoleonic period. Anyone who likes history and has a particular interest in the France of Napoleon will find the Duval stories to their liking. I look forward to another Duval story from this versatile and talented author.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A tricky one for the Emperor's agent By Eddie Nessuno Napoleon’s Police agent, Duval, faces one of his biggest challenges so far when the new Empress Josephine’s crown goes missing. He has to tread a dangerous path when suspects include princesses. As always, the author’s skillful writing and beautiful sense of the period take the reader on journey that is both gripping and instructive. A good read.
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