Red light : Adieu, Mignonne

Marie-E Bourassa

2016

VLB éditeur, une sociéte de Québecor Média

Montreal, early 1920. Since returning from the trenches, Eugène Duchamp, opium addict and war-crippled recluse lives with his wife Pei-Shan in a shabby apartment in Chinatown. When a young prostitute knocks on his door and begs him to return the baby that was taken away, the former policeman agrees to help despite his misgivings. Duchamp keep saying that he is not a private detective, but he knows he is the only one to solve this case in which the authorities are not interested. This great thriller is the first volume of a trilogy that takes us into the Red Light district of Montreal where a colorful crowd had forgotten his troubles in the smell of moonshine and music cabarets