Treachery in Bordeaux (The Winemaker Detective Series)
“They were kneeling near the central aisle, observing the sanctimonious in Sunday dress deserting the benches. The Cooker couple waited until the organist’s last notes had fallen silent before leaving. The Mass had been mediocre, the sermon lacked verve, and the flock dozed or was distracted. When the service was over, they went into the square in front of the church. A flea market had invaded the space at dawn. A colorful crowd moved around the dozens of improvised stands. A huge variety of obj...ects was laid out on the ground: coffee grinders without handles, scratched vinyl records, Louis-Philippe armoires that had been too well restored, stolen car radios, garden ironworks, dusty engravings, windproof lighters and military medals. Benjamin nosed about but didn’t find anything that caught his eye, with the exception of a corkscrew with a brass handle shaped like a pair of legs, one of them with a garter belt. He paid next to nothing for it. Elisabeth followed him, looking detached, and then stopped suddenly in front of an Art Deco sugar bowl that she bought without bothering to haggle.MoreLess
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