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...
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!
A fascinating chronicle of the investigation, capture, and trial of Dr. Marcel Petiot, a serial killer convicted of the gruesome murders 26 people in Nazi-occupied Paris and probably responsible for the murder of many, many more. A great true crime story.
RELEVANT QUOTE - “I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.” ― Primo LeviFrom wiki - On 11 March 1944, neighbors of a house owned by Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot at 21 rue Le Sueur in Paris, complained to police of a foul stench in the area and of large amounts of smoke billowing from a...
When I read the synopsis for this book on the Goodreads giveaways I was thrilled and prayed I would win a copy. It sounded like exactly my type of read! I love true crime, and I love reading non-fiction. So when I did get my copy through Goodreads First Reads, I could not have been happier. Unfo...
The book begins in 1944, in the upscale 16th arrondissement of Paris, a city under siege by the Germans. It is the time of The holocaust! There is black putrid smoke escaping from a chimney. A neighbor calls the police after the stench becomes overwhelming, but when the police arrive to investigate,...
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