The Germans wore grey.
The Paris Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery #7) by Susan Elia MacNeal I adore Maggie Hope. She's right out of 'Girls Own Magazine', a patterned heroine with a grownup twist. In Paris Spy Maggie is once again in the thick of things. This time she's called in favours from 'high places' to get herself over to occupied Paris--at the Ritz of course! Now that's a cover! She meets Coco! (As a side tack Chanel was reputably an ant-Semite and she had a German lover, Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage.) MacNeal has Maggie meeting Dincklage at Maxims after the ballet. The inclusion of Chanel is seamless, brilliant and believable. Bravo MacNeal! I have to say MacNeal's descriptions of an occupied high society Paris swirl with undercurrents of a nervous desperation despite all the glitz that is portrayed is riviting. Maggie's search for her half sister Elsie has ta...