The Place of Honeymoons

An American romantic novel. Edward Courtlandt, a wealthy American, returns to Paris after two years in the jungles of Burma to see Nora Harrigan again, an Irish-American soprano who sings at the Opera under the name Eleonora da Toscana. When he forces his way into her apartment, she fires a revolver and misses him, then disappears, and the newspapers talk of a kidnapping. The story moves to the shores of Lake Como, where a prince pursues her with his attentions. What happened between them two years earlier remains a mystery that the novel reveals little by little, between comedy and suspense.