Allan Cook

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.