celine


On The Road Again, Willie Nelson
Anna Valenn / VO

Celine Watkins was a private eye. It was an odd vocation for someone in the Social Register who had grown up partly in Paris, partly in New York. She may have been the only PI on earth whose father had been a partner at Morgan's in France during the war. The only working PI who had come to New York city when she was seven and attended the Brearley School for girls on the Upper East Side, and then Sarah Lawrence. Where she studied art, and at twenty-one spent a year back in Paris, where she apprenticed with an expressionist and was proposed to by a duke. 



Reading  Celine by Peter Heller was fun (more later - when  published in France, translated by Céline Leroy)



"What good is a gun if you don't load it, Pete? Heavens."