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The Purloined Love
An Inspector Canal Mystery
How many muscle-bound thugs does it take to steal a lover? Quite a few in this tale of newfound love, impossible love, and even medieval love! From New York to Paris, I attempt to discern the whereabouts of some star-crossed lovers and of some seriously old love letters worth a mint (and I don’t mean of the breath-freshening variety).
In this mystery, the backdrop is Puilaurens, the legendary Cathar Castle perched atop a precipice in the French Pyrenees. One misadventure after another occurs to a modern-day couple as people and objects alike are shunted about, hidden in plain view, mesmerized, and pilfered right and left. It all somehow reminds me of my favorite short story by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter.” Using some down-and-dirty methods of my own devising, I follow the threads of love’s tangled labors.
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