01298cam a2200289 4500 607547618 TxAuBib 20080829120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2008005059 9780061173509 0061173509 (OCoLC)191882075 TxAuBib Bayard, Louis. The black tower : a novel. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2008. 352p. Combines the story of a lost king of France with the story of the real-life convict who transformed himself into the world's first modern detective. The name of Vidocq and his newly created plainclothes police force strike terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. He used his mastery of surveillance and disguise to capture some of France's most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is searching for the true story of what happened to the son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI. 20080829. Vidocq, Eugene Francois, 1775-1857 Fiction. Detectives France Fiction. France History 19th century Fiction. France Kings and rulers Fiction. TXMIT