The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel

Mick asks Eleanor to stay and help with the trial. She feels a bond with him and is sad to go, but she is compelled to follow up on Kriegler’s lead and investigate her hunch that Marie might be alive. She travels to Zurich and visits the bank that houses Kriegler’s deposit box. There, she finds money and an envelope. She takes the money, planning to share it with the families of the SOE agents.

Inside the envelope is the radio transmission that Grace found in the SOE files, dated May 8, 1944, and stamped with the notation “Received in London”: “Thank you for your collaboration and for the weapons you sent us. SD” (331). Eleanor has never seen this transmission before. She realizes that showing it to anyone else will likely implicate her in the scandal, but she is determined to do so because she wants the truth about the SOE agents’ fate to be known publicly.

A week after leaving the photos at the British consulate, Grace is back to her usual routine at the law firm. She hasn’t heard from Mark since she walked out of his house without a word. Frankie is now fostering the young refugee, Sammy.