Beekeeper
Reeks: The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries
J. Robert Janes
- St-Cyr
- and
- Kohler
- uncover
- a
- black
- market
- beekeeping
- conspiracyDuring
- winter,
- the
- bees
- of
- Paris
- huddle
- into
- spheres,
- sacrificing
- some
- of
- the
- drones
- to
- keep
- the
- queen
- warm.
- In
- the
- winter
- of
- 1943,
- as
- rationing
- limits
- access
- to
- luxury
- goods,
- those
- at
- the
- top
- of
- Parisian
- society
- think
- nothing
- of
- sacrificing
- the
- poor
- for
- the
- sake
- of
- the
- black
- market.The
- latest
- casualty
- is
- a
- beekeeper,
- murdered
- in
- his
- apiary
- after
- getting
- in
- the
- way
- of
- a
- smuggling
- operation.
- The
- next
- night,
- burglars
- rob
- his
- hives,
- taking
- several
- kilos
- of
- honey
- at
- the
- expense
- of
- 300,000
- bees.
- As
- news
- filters
- in
- about
- the
- hundreds
- of
- thousands
- of
- soldiers
- who
- died
- in
- the
- fight
- for
- Stalingrad,
- the
- massacre
- of
- the
- bees
- seems
- insignificant.
- But
- to
- inspectors
- Jean-Louis
- St-Cyr
- and
- Hermann
- Kohler,
- the
- dead
- bees
- point
- to
- a
- conspiracy
- that,
- if
- revealed,
- could
- send
- Paris
- into revolt.
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