LA DISPARUE DU BOULEVARD VOLTAIRE / THE LOST GIRL OF BOULEVARD VOLTAIRE – Pierre-Étienne Musson

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Pierre-Étienne Musson

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Hachette Fictions
August 2025

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THE LOST GIRL OF BOULEVARD VOLTAIRE

Rights Holder: Hachette Fictions
Original Language: French

Paris, January 1907. Albert wanders frantically the streets of the 11th arrondissement. Marthe, the 12-year-old girl he accompanied to a music-hall show in the Ba-Ta-Clan, has disappeared. With Marissi, the child’s mother, he goes to the police station to report the disappearance. Escape, kidnapping, unfortunate encounter, accident... anything is possible and the Commissioner Georges Hacquart and the detectives responsible for the case are at a complete lost.

While the highest levels of government are considering abolishing the death penalty, the investigation into Marthe’s disappearance stalls and public opinion is rumbling. Fueled by unscrupulous news reports, this real-life soap opera will keep France in suspense for several weeks, until its stunning outcome.

Pierre-Étienne Musson, 57 years old, is a media publicist and bookseller on the quais of the Seine. He is the author of a first novel Un si joli mois d'août (Denoël 2016, Folio 2018), winner of the award for the first novel Folio/ Mots en Marge in 2018.

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