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Mystery of the Deadly Diamond (My Name is Paris, Bk 4)
Mystery of the Deadly Diamond - My Name is Paris, Bk 4 Author:Elizabeth Howard Paris MacKenzie is an independent and brash 16-year-old American visiting her namesake city at the turn of the century. In this fourth book in the series, she helps her friend Violette with a test run of Violette's experimental diving bell. They recover a trunk which is the first clue to the theft of a priceless 50-carat diamond, Napoleon's Fist... more ». The trail leads to Violette's aunt, Madame Meduse, a former enemy of Paris', and eventually to Paris' father. The fast-moving plot returns the diamond to the Louvre, exposes Meduse's involvement with the Fist as a way to buy Violette into the French scientific community, and reveals Violette and Paris as half-sisters. Readers will find plenty of action and some romance; many period details reinforced by pen-and-ink drawings place this a notch above the usual paperback series.« less