A Scent of Murder

My Name Is Paris #3

by Elizabeth Howard

During a visit to renowned artist Claude Monet, sixteen-year-old Paris MacKenzie stumbles upon a corpse that leads her and dashing Marcel Fleury to a deadly saboteur and a forgery network

Genres: Mystery

154 pages, Hardcover

First published October 12, 1987

About the author

Elizabeth Howard (Mizner) was born in 1907 in Detroit, and spent most of her life in Michigan. Descended from a noteworthy historic family, she loved history herself and enjoyed sharing her strong sense of the past in historical novels for teenage girls.

Reviews

[Shaun Winters · Rating 4 out of 5]

This took me awhile to get into because the beginning reminded me so much of the previous book in the series where there was a random real life person involved in the plot. This took me out of the story at the beginning, but finally I got into this in one night and read the rest of it. The reason? It started to actually feel like a murder mystery instead of a historical fiction book. It became about who killed the character that passes away instead of about the weird inclusion of a person that was real. The person that murdered the person and the why is kinda par for the mystery course, but I found myself enthralled much better with this one than book two so congrats Elizabeth Howard for pulling off a better third book than the second in the series. There is one more book in the overall series and then I will put this to rest.

[Erica Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Light and breezy murder mystery, and our heroine becomes besties with Monet lol. These are a joy to read! The illustrations are so beautiful; I wish there were more.