The Modigliani Scandal Summary
Ken Follett

The Modigliani Scandal Summary

The novel opens in a Paris bakery shop. The baker is making his second batch of bread that morning. Business is good. Outside, he sees an attractive girl and decides that it is safe for him to look since his wife is out back with the employees. He decides the girl is too skinny for his tastes but is very sexy. She entered his shop and purchased a loaf of bread. The baker detects an accent in her French, perhaps English. At the sound of the voice of his wife, Jeanne-Marie, the baker's fantasy ends.

The girl is Dee Sleign. She is talking about going to graduate school and writing her thesis on drugs and art when her boyfriend Mike suggests that she talk to an old man that he knows. He might be able to provide her with some information for her thesis. She does... View more of the The Modigliani Scandal Summary