Murder can be very subtle, almost invisible. When a woman dies on the newly built Eiffel Tower it seems like a simple case of a fatal reaction to a bee-sting. It’s not that unusual, only last month a man also died of a bee-sting. However, after the death of the woman, a newspaper receives a note that implies her death was actually murder. Then two days later, another man is dead from a bee-sting. The police are investigating and the public has become fascinated with the deaths. 

Victor Legris is an unlikely investigator. He is a bookseller who happens to be present when the woman dies on the Eiffel Tower, and then he was also close by when the second man died as well. The murders were in the news but Victor was not thinking about them. His mentor and friend, Kenji Mori, has been acting strangely and Victor wants to find out what is going on. There is also the beautiful illustrator for a newspaper, Tasha Kherson, and she seems to have her own secrets. These deaths are only the beginning, and the murders somehow seem connected to Victor as he is drawn into the investigation. Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner recreates the World Exposition in Paris of 1889 with vivid detail and description.