Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
Steven Levingston,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on 02-25-2014
Steven Levingston,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on 02-25-2014
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385536035 (0385536038)
Publish date: February 25th 2014
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Thank goodness I’d read Dawn of the Belle Epoque before attempting this! The author does try to explain some of the events surrounding the murder, but I knew so little of this time before, I would have been hopelessly lost. The thing is, I don’t read true crime…basically ever. There is a great combi...
The Belle Epoque in Paris conjures up thoughts of beautiful people, beautiful clothes, gracious living and strolling on the Promenade des Anglais on the Riviera. Little Demon in the City of Lights gives us the dark underside of that picture.The disappearance of a rich ladies' man in Paris in 1889 st...
Delicious (and true) this makes a fantastic winter read!
This book reminds me heavily of Devil in the White City. While it isn’t quite as good as the Pulitzer Prize winner, it gets very close. The similarities strike me not simply because the book follows a gruesome murder, but in the narrative way the events are told and the tone that is used throughou...
READ VIA NETGALLEY Paris is known as the City of Love. We all know what that means; love and murder sometimes walk hand in hand after all. In this book, Steven Levingston tells the tale of the murder of Toussaint-Augsutin Gouffe at the hands of his mistress Gabrielle Bompard and Michel Eyraud, a...
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