MRS. DUCHESNEY MYSTERIES Francesca's Story - The Interview 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 described to me as the legendary Paris Sleuth Extraordinaire, I did not imagine her to be the unassuming little woman seated...

The Education of Francine Robinsworth Duchesney A SUMMER ABROAD (MRS DUCHESNEY MYSTERIES) An Early History of Paris Sleuths Extraordinaire. On an old borrowed map hidden under her bed, Francine had scribbled in bright blue crayon "the other side of the world." Born with an exceptional curiosity in a small town jam-packed with well-preserved century-old mysteries, where indiscretions lined cellars and attics like jars of last year's apricots, 17-year old Francine found no lie was so well constructed, no secret so well kept, no treasure so deeply buried... that she could not discover it. So...

MRS. DUCHESNEY MYSTERIES Vol 2. Louie's Story - The Interview 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 cafe 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 Mrs. Duchesney met... but first, please, tell me where I was last night." Monsieur Bertrand smiled, poured us both...