About the book: 2011 / Claude Isner's historical detective stories are conquering the world. In the novel “The Talisman of La Villette,” the reader, along with the characters he already loves, finds himself again in Paris at the end of the 19th century. Early in the morning of 1894, not far from the famous Parisian slaughterhouses of La Villette, the corpse of a strangled woman was found. Victor Legris and his assistant Joseph Pinho investigate this case, having only one piece of evidence in their hands - an outlandish medallion with an image of a unicorn's head.…