Rue Paradis

A free Étienne Vallon story: Marseille, October 1933. The case that sent Inspector Vallon north to Lock No. 4.

For three days Inspector Étienne Vallon has kept a shipping-company cashier hidden in a hotel on the Rue Paradis. The man knows where the crates really go, and on Thursday morning he will tell a judge.

On Wednesday afternoon a note in the handwriting of Vallon’s best friend calls him away for one hour. The cashier goes out for tobacco.

Rue Paradis is the story behind the first Étienne Vallon novel, Lock No. 4: a novella of about 14,000 words (47 pages). You get it as EPUB (for Kindle, Kobo and Apple Books) and PDF.

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