{"product_id":"the-dead-mans-gaze-a-historical-mystery-paris-1881-9798199997966","title":"The Dead Man's Gaze: A Historical Mystery - Paris, 1881","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Beauséjour\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, November 1881. The body of Deputy Armand Delcourt is pulled from the Seine at dawn. The official verdict comes within hours: accidental drowning. Case closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. �douard Vassi�re arrives at the quay too late to matter - or so everyone assumes. But Vassi�re has spent ten years developing a theory that no one at the Academy of Medicine will accept: the human retina preserves the last image it ever captured. In a clandestine laboratory above a damp courtyard, he and his assistant Nour Benali, an Algerian-born chemist whose name appears on none of the papers she makes possible, have developed a method to reveal what a dead man saw in his final seconds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat they find will put them both in danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man's face. A white shirt collar. And the official badge of the French Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Inspector Maret closes in on a minister with everything to hide, the investigation draws in a journalist who watches from the shadows, a widow who has been waiting with a box of her husband's files, and a gallery of forgotten inventors whose discoveries the world refuses to admit exist: Mendel's laws of heredity, L�on Scott's recorded voices, Bertillon's identification system, Lister's antisepsis. Each of them right. Each of them erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dead Man's Gaze is a historical mystery about evidence buried, science stolen, and truth that refuses to stay dead. It is also the story of Nour Benali - who solved the crime, and whose name you will not find in any textbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of intellectual historical mysteries and stories of women whose work was taken from them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968287424663,"sku":"9798199997966","price":1172.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199997966.webp?v=1782917407","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-dead-mans-gaze-a-historical-mystery-paris-1881-9798199997966","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}