Victor Constant is a military policeman, the hero of a series of investigations carried out in the 1730s in the remote Champagne region of France. The first novel, Murder at Cirey, is on preorder on Amazon, from Sapere Books UK. Sapere have just sent me the first cover rough for the fourth novel in the series, Death in an Ideal Landscape, which I have just completed.Sapere's cover is in the style of Murder at Cirey (see in the blog below) and features a map from the same period by the redoubtable Cassini family.
I enjoy researching the real history and locations behind Victor's adventures and very pleased to tell you that in the latest book he has to chase a criminal all the way to Paris. There he checks out the horse markets on the south bank of the Seine, the biggest in France, which happen to be named for Saint Victor, like the nearby abbey. The map of the district shown above is by Félibien, 1734.