Simon & Schuster’s Kris Doyle has snapped up Catriona Byers’ examination of Paris’ morgue in the 19th century, followed by a flurry of multi-publisher international auctions.

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A historian’s look at a19th-century Paris morgue in which the unidentified dead were laid out for public view has been snapped up by Simon & Schuster (S&S), followed by a flurry of multi ...