title: Murder in Montparnasse: A Mystery of Literary Paris
author:  Howard Engel 
description: <b>Penzler Pick, <a href="/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/131870/${0}">January 2001</a>:</b> Howard Engel's <i>Murder in Montparnasse</i>, an intrigue-filled novel set in the Left Bank's glorious heyday in the 1920s, joins Stephen Glazier's <i>The Lost Provinces</i> and William Wiser's <i>Disappearances</i> as an outstanding example of this minigenre. Engel, an award-winning Canadian writer best known for his Benny Cooperman mystery series, makes his narrator a fellow countryman, Mike Ward. An expatriate supporting himself as a translator for a press agency on the Right Bank, Ward prefers to spend his time amid the colorful personalities who are permanent fixtures at the sidewalk cafes of the Left. One of his first acquaintances, J. Miller Waddington, is a sometime boxer and bullfight aficionado who's come to the City of Light intending to write the Great American Novel. Who does that remind you of?
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  Books by the author
  
  
  Murder in the Marais
  
  
  Murder in Belleville
  
  
  Murder in the Sentier
  
  
  Murder in the Bastille
  
  
  Murder in Clichy
  
  
  Murder in Montmartre
  
  
  Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
  
  
  Murder in the Rue de Paradis
  
  
  Murder in the Latin Quarter
  
  
  Murder in the Palais Royal
  
  
  Murder in Passy
  
  
  Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
  
  
  Murder Below Montparnasse
  
  
  Murder in Pigalle
  
  
  Murder on the Champ de Mars
  
  
  Murder on the Quai
  
  
  Murder in Saint-Germain
  
  
  Murder on the Left Bank
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Cara Black
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  This is a work of f iction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either
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  product of the author’s imagination or are used f ictitiously, and any
  
  
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events,  
  or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Published by
  
  
  Soho Press, Inc.
  
  
  853 Broadway
  
  
  New York