Barbara Bluestone is writing the romantic suspense novel "The Minotaur in Paris."
Just saw Hitchcock’s delicious 1938 mystery, “The Lady Vanishes.” The genre is that seemingly impossible contradiction in terms, a comic thriller. It’s all about spying, of course, which was the great theme of the pre-war years. Spoiler alert! Miss Froy, the kindly old English governess turns out to be a British spy, trying to get a […]
In 1936, to get to Europe from the US, you had to sail. It took a bit less than a week, and crossing the tempestuous Atlantic was not for the faint of heart. Gladys’s diary publishers included a helpful guide to life on board ship, remedies for the dreaded seasickness, and advice on hat pools, in […]
Suspense, espionage, betrayal, and love, as darkness falls over the City of Light… Read here to see why this book had to be written. Enjoy a taste of the start of a dangerous adventure into the labyrinth…
Novel of a wardrobe: A chic Parisienne from the Belle Epoque through the Thirties Musée Carnavalet, Paris 17 october 2013 – 16 March 2014 Fabulous fashions to dream about, relating the story of a woman of exquisite taste — and the means to indulge it. Daughter of a dressmaker, she was one of the first saleswomen […]
The facts are tantalizingly few. When in 2010 a 91-year-old woman died in the south of France, her estate was found to include a Paris apartment, situated somewhere between Pigalle and the Opera. The woman, Madame de Florian, had abandoned it in 1942, and for nearly 70 years, the forgotten apartment lay in darkness and […]