Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
by:
David C. King (author)
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with...
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Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, r
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307452917 (0307452913)
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Mystery,
War,
Crime,
True Crime,
France,
World War II,
Historical
Okay so if anyone needed to be guillotined, it was this murderer. He makes you hope for an Old Testament god, if you know what I mean - wink, wink, nudge, nudge. (Sue me, I just watched that episode). Relating a murder investigation that occurred during the Nazi Occupation of Paris...
bookshelves: fraudio, published-2011, true-grime, serial-killer, nazi-related, autumn-2011, france, nonfiction, wwii, war, gorefest, history, medical-eew Read from October 16 to 20, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** RELEVANT QUOTE - “I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.” ― Primo LeviFrom w...
Won this book.
I think I was hoping this would be written more like creative non fiction than it actually was.I had some trouble keeping the names and places straight which is obviously not the fault of the author. What was the fault of the author was the unnecessary tangents about what Simone de Beauvoir, Jean P...
Nazis AND serial killers? This one should fly off the true-crime shelf at my library!Oh, and P.S. One lesson I learned from this book: when you suspect someone of being a murderer/sociopath/generally bad person, DON'T agree to meet them alone at their house and talk about it with them. Sheesh!
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