Miss Stubbs Dear Laura, a Book-of-the-

Month Club Alternate Selection, intro-

duced Inspector John Lintott, who was

welcomed as the most interesting nine-

teenth-century character of his kind since

Sherlock Holmes.

Now Miss Stubbs brings Inspector

Lintott back for a wholly new adventure,

which takes him across the Channel to

Paris, where they do not speak his lan-

guage, in any sense. Lintott is on the trail

of a child who allegedly died in a train

wreck twenty years earlier. She is the

sister of Nicholas Carradine, now a fa-

mous artist, who is obsessed by the pos-

sibility that his sister may not be dead.

Lintott, a homebody at heart, has a

difficult time with France s three sacred

altars: food, money, and l amour. Witty,

intelligent Madam Picard is the mistress

not only of an important government

minister but of his son as well! More-

over, living with her is Valentine, who is

pregnant by her mistress s protector! This

is all too much for homebody Lintott,

who pursues a trail of adultery and incest

to discover the one secret that can lead to

Nicholas Carradine s happiness.

Jean Stubbs own secret is a writing

style that has won her numerous

admirers throughout the United States.

Her novel about the life of Eleonora Duse

was picked by The New York Times as one

of the best books of the year.