The Third Arch from the Crossroads

The student didn’t show up for the lecture? How surprising! Then let’s add some color. The educational institution is the Academy at the College of Sorbonne. The missed lecture covered the course “Non-standard magical influences. Using Voodoo magic,” and it was the last lecture before the winter session. And the student is the fourteenth Duke Medina. And it turns out there might not be a fifteenth duke, because the young man has no parents or brothers left. Lavinia Redfield, professor of this very Academy, intervenes in this story purely at the command of that part of the body responsible for adventures for all of us. And not only does she interfere herself! She drags along Madame Marie Lavo, who teaches that very voodoo magic, and Jacques Dupont, a modest archivist. The whole group goes to January Seville—to find the young duke, clarify the circumstances of his family’s deaths, and uncover a couple or three conspiracies. And of course, they win…