Folly du jour
(Book)

"It's springtime in Paris and Joe Sandilands has just flown in to attend an Interpol conference. To his annoyance, he is at once diverted to the Quai des Orfèvres where a fellow Englishman has been arrested for murder. In a cell at police headquarters, he is devastated by the spectacle of his old friend Sir George Jardine, still in evening dress stained with the blood of the man he is alleged to have knifed to death during a performance at the Follies Bergère the previous evening. George has been beaten by his interrogators and is in a sorry state. Why, then, is he so reluctant to confide in Joe, the one man who believes in his innocence. Joe's enquiries in the jazz capital of Europe bring to light a dark current of vice and murder lurking underneath the gaiety, champagne and dancing. Joe comes within a whisker of death before he is able to look the killer in the eye."--Book jacket.