“You were unaware he had another history, this one hidden for over fifty years. He knew Léon Pincus’s family as well as thousands of other Jews in Paris during the Occupation. At least, their home addresses. And where they worked, if they could find work. The essentials our police would need to locate them.”
Dray calmly blinked back.
“From a cache of documents discovered, I suspect Monsieur Boucher helped plot the major roundup of Jews, including that man’s family, of the sixteenth and seventeenth of July 1942. I also suspect Monsieur Pincus went to confront him the day he was murdered. He had to boast he had found him out, thanks to those documents. He had to brag he was going to sue him for complicity in crimes against humanity. Occupation scholars have located enough evidence in that
