Death In The City Of Light
The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised Wartime Paris
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2012
Summary
DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT is the true story of the hunt for Marcel Petiot, a respectable physician by day, who turned out to be a brutal serial killer by night in Nazi-occupied Paris.
Petiot was charged with 27 grisly murders, though his victims - many of whom were Jews seeking to escape the Nazis - may have numbered in excess of 100, for Petiot was not only skilled at evading detection and capture, he was also expert at dismembering his victims beyond any chance of identification.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751548457 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751548456 |
| Author: | David King |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 183mm x 31mm |
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Critics Review
You won’t read many better true crime books.
As compelling as a thriller and hauntingly grim. - Sunday Times
Expertly written and completely absorbing. - KirkusTrue-crime at its best. - BooklistThis fascinating…account combines a police procedural with a vivid historical portrait of culture and law enforcement in Nazi-occupied France. - Publishers WeeklyA new masterpiece of true-crime writing. - Salon.comAbout The Author
David King
David King is the author of Vienna, 1814; How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War and Peace at the Congress of Vienna and Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World. He is a Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree from Cambridge University and lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and children.
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