Author Description

"Paris, 1922: Sylvia Beach opens the back room of her bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, and finds a real surprise--a very, dead body lying on top of James Joyce's newly-released Ulysses, and all of the evidence paints Joyce as the culprit. Erstwhile journalist Jack Barnett and his pal, young Ernest Hemingway, are forced to investigate the crime for their friend Beach. Drinking and deducing their way through expatriate Paris, they rub elbows with Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Thornton Wilder and Pablo Picasso as they find themselves spiraling into a tornadic maelstrom of international intrigue--a conspiracy that just might spark World War II, twenty years too early!"--Cover page 4.