She Went to Paris

It'S Paris It'S Spring The Chestnuts On The Boulevards Are Blooming And When Sterling Kirkland Sawyer A Young Writer From New York Arrives In 1921 She'S Immediately Immersed In The Frenetic Life At Literary Salons At The Studios Of Surrealist Painters Celebrated Sculptors Poets And Novelists At Concerts And Art Exhibitions At Late Nights Doing The Charleston And The Bunny Hop And At Dinners With Lovers And Friends At The Famous Watering-Holes Of The Day.. . Some Eighty Years Later Private Investigator Jamie Prescott Is Hired By Sterling'S Niece Now In Her Seventies To Find Out Why And How Sterling Disappeared So Suddenly In The Early 1930S. The Clues Are Obscure As If Her Whereabouts Had Been Deliberately Suppressed At The Time And No One Who Knew Her In Paris Has Ever Come Forward.. . Jamie Prescott Is 42 Single Six Feet And Then Some Has A Master'S In Criminal Justice Occasionally Carries A Gun Has A Black Belt In Tae Kwon Do And Works Out Of Offices On K Street In Washington D.C. Jamie Heads To Paris To Follow In Sterling'S Footsteps And Is Helped And Hindered In Her Investigation By An Ex-Husband A Colorful Assistant From Manhattan A Stripper From Montmartre An Ancient Nun A Would-Be Poet And A Chatelaine From French Wine Country. Jamie Winds Up Her Quest In New York And Washington In Circumstances Which Surprise Even Herself.