The Nicolas Le Floch Affair: The Châtelet Apprentice

12 hrs. 31 min.

Language Russian

Author Jean-François Parot

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

France, 1761. Young Nicolas Le Floquet arrives in Paris and begins studying the craft of a detective under Lieutenant General of the Royal Police, Monsieur Sartine, a special investigator, who assigns Nicolas to investigate the disappearance of Commissioner Larden. Not only must he find out whose body was discovered in the cellar of a house on Blan-Manto Street, where the commissioner lived, but he must also locate the secret correspondence kept by Larden—correspondence that compromises the king’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour…

“The Mystery of Blan-Manto Street” is the first volume in the detective series about the investigations of the famous Commissioner Chatellet by popular French writer Jean-François Parot.

Jean-François Parot (born 1946) is a historian, diplomat, writer, and researcher of 18th-century Paris. “The Mystery of Blan-Manto Street” is the first of the novels in the series about the adventures of Nicolas Le Floquet, Commissioner Chatellet.

Contents:

Dramatis personae
PROLOGUE
I PARIS
II GÉRAND
III DISAPPEARANCES
IV FINDS
V THANATOS
VI EROS
VII THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
VIII FROM SCYLLA TO CHARYBDIS
IX WOMEN
X TRACKS AND RUTS
XI NOTHING-DOING
XII OLD SOLDIER
XIII THE HUNTER’S THRILL
XIV IN THE DARK
XV TROPHY
EPILOGUE

1. The Nicolas Le Floch Affair: The Châtelet Apprentice 2. The Man with the Lead Stomach (narrated by Sergey Dadyko) 6. The Flour War (narrated by Sergey Dadyko) 10. The Russian Affair of Nicolas Le Floch (narrated by Mikhail Roslyakov)