Edward Chisholm’s riveting and disturbingly fun “Murder in Paris ’68” digs into this lurid murder mystery with an exciting, youthful insouciance rare in the staid true-crime genre. …His own investigations — and astute asides — lend the narrative a present-day pulse. …But the electrifying brilliance of “Murder in Paris ’68” isn’t merely the whodunit of a celebrity crime story. Chisholm uses the murder as a launchpad to capture the radically changing society of 1960s France, as it moved from de Gaulle’s postwar stoicism into the hedonistic, materialistic modern era.
Murder in Paris ’68: A True Story of Death and Glamour by Edward Chisholm is published in North America by Pegasus Books. The agency represents North American rights on behalf of Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown (UK).
Edward Chisholm was born in England and moved to Paris after graduating from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. A resident in the City of Lights for seven years, Chisholm spent the first four of them working all manner of low-paid restaurant jobs, from waiting and bartending, while trying to build a career as a writer. Now Chisholm makes a living as a freelance writer. His first book was A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City (Pegasus, 2022) His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Financial Times magazine. He lives in England.