A rollicking tale that features special printed map endpapers and more than two dozen masterpieces of art throughout the book, SACRÉ BLEU is better than a day at the museum!

It is the color of the Virgin Mary's cloak, a dazzling pigment desired by artists, an exquisite hue infused with danger, adventure, and perhaps even the supernatural. It is… SACRÉ BLEU

In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he? Why would an artist at the height of his creative powers attempt to take his own life... and then walk a mile to a doctor's house for help? Who was the crooked little "color man" Vincent had claimed was stalking him across France? And why had the painter recently become deathly afraid of a certain shade of blue?

These are just a few of the questions confronting Vincent's friends --- baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec --- who vow to discover the truth about van Gogh's untimely death. Their quest will lead them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late nineteenth-century Paris.

Oh lÀ lÀ, quelle surprise, and zut alors! A delectable confection of intrigue, passion, and art history --- with cancan girls, baguettes, and fine French cognac thrown in for good measure --- SACRÉ BLEU is another masterpiece of wit and wonder from the one, the only, Christopher Moore.