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Set on the streets of Pigalle in the nineteen fifties, an enchanting, picturesque novel, whose rambunctious teen-age heroine is guaranteed to make you laugh and cry. Simone, an intrepid, spirited adolescent, has a gift of seeing into the future. When a serial killer swears he will murder all the prostitutes of Pigalle, Simone decides to lead her own investigation, parallel to that of the police. Neither her mother, a professional soothsayer, nor her usually unemployed musician father take her seriously. But with the help of her friends, the freaks of a near-by fair, a few close buddies and her elder brother - just back from Algeria - Simone discovers the assassin's identity and is saved in extremis from his scalpel. > Dancer, actress and dance-hall choreographer, Christine Haydar published her successful first novel Simone in 1999.