Praise for Alice B. Toklas is Missing

The one book featuring T.S. Eliot that I did read on my holidays was Robert Archambeau’s Alice B. Toklas is Missing (2023), a delightfully light and witty mystery novel set in modernist Paris, with some beautiful period detail. “Tom Eliot” carries a large wheel of French cheese around for much of the action.

—Jeremy Noel-Tod, Some Flowers Soon (Substack)

An entertaining romp with zing, ideal for readers who romanticize the Jazz Age and dream of rubbing elbows with Picasso over a Pernod.

—Booklist

Paris in the 1920s—artists, poets, writers, musicians, a modernist mélange, Cubists, Surrealists, Futurists, Hemingway, Eliot, Pound—caught here in a wonderful innocents-abroad, comic thriller. Ida Caine is at the center of it all, finding Alice, saving Paris—a perfect, wide-eyed and dauntless heroine, with T.S. Eliot as her companion. Not since Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife has a novel taken us so thoroughly into the Paris of the lost generation.

—Michael Anania, author of Nightsongs & Clamors

With a multilayered plot, real figures from Jazz Age Paris, and puzzles for Ida and her friends to figure out, this novel will appeal to fans of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code or Sulari Gentill's A Few Right Thinking Men.

—Victoria Kollar, Library Journal

Traveling from macabre Parisian catacombs to the staid Louvre, Alice B. Toklas is Missing is a spiraling and scintillating mystery.

—Meg Nola, Foreword Reviews