A dancer from the Moulin Rouge is murdered in the waning days of the Paris Exposition in the late 1800s. The very logical Detective Lefebvre is put on the case, his partner is Rousseau, a not so above board detective, so Lefebvre circumvents the man and works with a network including the artist Lautrec.

I found this book dry. I didn't really find myself caring about any of the characters which made it difficult to want to finish it.