Death In The City Of Light : The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised Wartime Paris Paperback / softback
by David King
Paperback / softback
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THE MOST AMAZING TRUE STORY SINCE AGENT ZIGZAGOCCUPIED PARIS, 1944. A swastika crowns the Eiffel Tower. Nazis march through the streets. And in the dark heart of the city, a madman is at work . . . At a chic Right Bank address, a horrific pile of dismembered bodies is discovered.
The property's owner, well-to-do Dr Petiot, immediately becomes the prime suspect, but he has vanished without a trace.
As the police delve into the doctor's past, a disturbing history of violence and corruption is uncovered.
It seems like a cut-and-dried case, but the investigation soon takes a surprising turn.
Is Petiot a sadistic serial killer or a hero of the Resistance?
Who are his victims?In this fascinating true account of a case that gripped wartime Paris, David King draws extensively on new sources to paint a chilling portrait of a murderer whose crimes devastated a city already in the grip of evil.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, Section: 8, b/w photos
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:21/06/2012
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- ISBN:9780751548457
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, Section: 8, b/w photos
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:21/06/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780751548457
