Thomas Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler

The Crimes of Paris (eBook, ePUB)

A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets -- all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murderous anarchists.

In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time -- the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Immediately, Alphonse Bertillon, a detective world-renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, was called upon to solve the crime. And quickly the Paris police had a suspect: a young Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso....

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780316052535
• Artikelnr.: 39696732

Autorenporträt

Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, a married couple, are the authors of The Monsters, a chronicle of the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Their novel, In Darkness, Death, won a 2005 Edgar Award. They live in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Theft
Chapter One - The City of Light
Chapter Two - Searching for a Woman
Chapter Three - Sympathy for the Devil
Chapter Four - Science vs. Crime
Chapter Five - The Man Who Measured People
Chapter Six - The Suspects
Chapter Seven - The Motor Bandits
Chapter Eight - The Thief
Chapter Nine - Cherchez la Femme
Chapter Ten - The Greatest Crime
Afterword - The Mastermind
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"[An] engrossing forensic history...[its] lively portraits...[and] anecdotes buzz with energy."-The Washington Post