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Cover Art © Roger Kopman. In the pre-dawn hours of another rainy day in Paris, a wet and shivering little bird of a woman appears at the door of a famous Paris sleuth to ask for help in selling an unknown masterpiece. The always-suspicious Mrs. Duchesney asks her visitor, "Did you steal it?" The meek widow Chorifé assures her host that she did not, but fears she might know who did. "Fear?" Mrs. Duchesney eyes grow larger. "Just how well do you...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. An airplane departs Los Angeles with 406 souls onboard, but arrives in Sydney, Australia with 384 passengers, 18 cabin crew, 4 pilots and… one dead man! Where did passenger No. 407 come from? With the Prime Minister of one of the most powerful countries onboard, his government wants to know - "Could this have been an assassination attempt?" Fiona Forester Chesterfield, an unsuspecting government fraud investigator is ...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. A search for immortality? Did this bring people to Paris in the summer or was their search for something more lasting? Love, romance, the perfect martini? When bouquets show up at Mrs. Duchesney's door four Sundays in a row with no cards attached, something other than a rare flower begins smelling odd to this seasoned Paris sleuth. The mystery is complicated when her newest client delivers an antique bottle of amber-c...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. An early history of Paris Sleuths Extraordinaire, Mrs. Duchesney and Louis Bertrand. "Whatever the unknown in Europe, " young Francine Robinsworth Duchesney told her parents at supper, "it has to be better than the known in a small town, where truth is hidden behind smiles, pleasantries, and an over abundance of stretch lace at weddings." On an old borrowed map hidden beneath her bed, Francine Robinsworth Duchesney ha...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. Humorous, inspirational, philosophical, romantic, nostagic memories of Paris, France. QUOTES - The Wit and Wisdom of Paris Sleuths is a collection of the author Peggy Kopman-Owens' favorite quotes from her novels: SEVEN PARIS MYSTERIES (7-book series), MRS DUCHESNEY MYSTERIES (9-book series), SIMON PENNINGTON MYSTERIES (3-book series), THE MIST OF MONTMARTRE, PARIS APARTMENT FOR RENT, LATE PASSENGER.

Simon Pennington Paris Sleuth is hired by Mrs. Duchesney to find her favorite author, Jamie Litton, a reclusive mystery writer whose best friend Ben Foulof is a spy on the run. Her assignment was meant to be a fun, harmless adventure for the summer, but Simon now suspects he has been duped into playing a role in a far more dangerous game. This unique crossover mystery re-introduces a cast of characters that readers may recognize from this auth...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. In desperation, she wrote, "Meet me in Paris." He would have said, "Yes." But, he never received her letter. Who did? Bon Voyage! Les grandes vacances, the six-week summer exodus, is about to begin, taking Paris sleuth Louie Bertrand to the sunny beaches of Deauville and leaving his sleuthing partner Mrs. Duchesney alone in Paris to investigate not one, but four new mysteries! The stamp market provides a perfect setti...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. A person could not boast of visiting Paris without one night at Caveau des Trésors. The century-old underground jazz club and quintessential address for the best jazz musicians in the world, where famous and infamous mingle freely, has been Louie Bertrand's favorite hideaway for 30 years. So, when the famous sleuth's table remains empty for too many nights in a row, the club's owner suspects foul play and contacts Lou...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. "Monsieur Pennington! You're late." "Oui. Excusez-moi. It was unavoidable." "A woman?" "A painting." "Mon Dieu! Two in one week?" "An ambitious thief." The Paris Opera has presented sleuths Simon Pennington and André Caron with another intriguing case to solve. One prime suspect has fallen victim to the pandemic, those still alive are afraid to show their faces, and some witnesses have been dead for more than a centur...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. People often ask me, "How did Louie Bertrand become a famous Paris sleuth?" For our first interview, Louie Bertrand agreed to meet me at a café at one o'clock in the afternoon for "le petit dejeuner." This should have been my first clue, for it shouted this artist turned sleuth was a "night bloomer." After our first night out together my head was still spinning. I pleaded to his amused face, "Tell me again how you and...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. People often ask me, "How did Mrs. Duchesney become a famous Paris sleuth?" I tell them it should have been easy to predict that Francine Robinsworth Duchesney would find success doing something unexpected of a young woman from a small town in the American Midwest. For you see, she had never been what others in that part of the world might call normal. When I came to Paris in search of Mrs. Duchesney, a person describ...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. Among the rich of Paris, there are opportunities for thieves and forgers such as Vadim Bergeron, a predator who delights in destroying the reputations of true artists and the naïve women who love them. However, one private detective has spent years recruiting waiters and chefs to build a reliable, although eclectic network of informants. Within days of an art theft, he can count on clues arriving during dinner: a note...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. "Do you carry any weapons, Monsieur Pennington?" "Only my wits." A modern-day Casanova is targeting American tourists in Paris, stealing their hearts, and leaving odd clues as to his identity. A few victims have hired a private detective to find the rogue. However, Paris sleuth Simon Pennington would never interrupt someone dining at his favorite French restaurant, not even to arrest him for stealing a priceless treas...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. In Paris, there were simply too many beautiful women hiding too many secrets, and this case was becoming too personal and too intriguing for Mrs. Duchesney to solve on her own. There was only one name on the engraved invitation, "Louie Arnaud Bertrand" making it perfectly clear that Mrs. Duchesney was not welcome at Chateau de Robinesque-Roussel. Investigating the very delicate nature of this mystery would become her ...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. In Paris, two bodies have been found floating in the river. Two friends appear in tourists' photographs, side-by-side smiling up into the Heavens, as if this had been nothing more than another Saturday spent happily fishing. Later, a third unclaimed body will turn up at the morgue. When the fourth appears, it's time for Paris sleuths Mrs. Duchesney and Louie Bertrand to get involved. Something very fishy has been happ...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. Who knew? Spies read! This 30-year saga asks readers, "How well do you know your best friend and what are you willing to do to keep him alive?"A sinister-looking man shows up late at night at a New York City apartment shared by mystery writer Jamie Litton and journalist Ben Foulof to deliver disturbing news. Ben has disappeared from his reporting assignment in the Middle East. The stranger leaves behind an absurd, but...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. Who knew? Spies read! The rich are not like us. When it rains, they simply fly away, taking their secrets with them. On the Côte d' Azur, a missing journalist is given a rare opportunity to becomes an insider, offering his best friend an unexpected invitation to a masquerade ball at the Darimus Mansion in Antibes, and a chance to settle an old score. To spend New Year's Eve on the French Riviera in the company of the ...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. Who knew? Spies Read! A murder has been committed in Paris at an antique store named "L' Indice." The antique store's strange history of unsolved murders and robberies began long before the WWII rumors of masterpieces stolen from castles on the Rhine. Jamie Litton, whose mystery writer's imagination won't let dead men or their secrets rest in peace, moves in upstairs with hopes of discovering the truth for his next be...

GAMAN Book Three of Seven Paris Mysteries © 2011 Peggy Kopman-Owens Cover Art © Roger Kopman MYSTERY. SUSPENSE. INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE. Who knew? Spies read! Danger awaits best friends Jamie Litton and Ben Foulof on the island of Malta, where one will be accused of murder and the other of being a spy on the run. A missing journalist cannot tell the world he is still alive by becoming a mystery writer's alibi. An escape to sea seems like ...

Cover Art © Roger Kopman. Who knew? Spies read! "I did not know, that I was being seduced, until it was too late - the faces unknown, the moment unexpected. Is that not the essence of seduction?" Living in a loft in the 18th Arrondissement near Montmartre, mystery writer Jamie Litton has become intoxicated with his life as the newest member of Parisian café society, a group of talented, eccentric artists, musicians, and poets. They have uncond...