Overview
DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT is the true story of the hunt for Marcel Petiot, a respectable physician by day, who turned out to be a brutal serial killer by night in Nazi-occupied Paris. Petiot was charged with 27 grisly murders, though his victims - many of whom were Jews seeking to escape the Nazis - may have numbered in excess of 100, for Petiot was not only skilled at evading detection and capture, he was also expert at dismembering his victims beyond any chance of identification. The investigation was led by Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu of the Homicide Squad, who became entangled with a cast of captivating characters through the shadowy world of Gestapo, gangsters, nightclub owners, Resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies and various nefarious figures of the Parisian underground.
Full Product Details
Author: David King
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Sphere
Dimensions:
Width: 18.30cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 19.90cm
Weight: 0.356kg
ISBN: 9780751548457
ISBN 10: 0751548456
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 21 June 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Expertly written and completely absorbing. Kirkus Reviews True-crime at its best Booklist This fascinating ... account combines a police procedural with a vivid historical portrait of culture and law enforcement in Nazi-occupied France Publishers Weekly A new masterpiece of true-crime writing Salon.com
As compelling as a thriller and hauntingly grim Sunday Times You won't read many better true crime books. Evening Standard 20120621 Expertly written and completely absorbing. Kirkus True-crime at its best Booklist This fascinating ... account combines a police procedural with a vivid historical portrait of culture and law enforcement in Nazi-occupied France Publishers Weekly A new masterpiece of true-crime writing Salon.com
As compelling as a thriller and hauntingly grim Sunday Times You won't read many better true crime books. Evening Standard 20120621 A must for those who addictively consume the fact-fiction thrillers of Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre Daily Mail 20120629 Expertly written and completely absorbing. Kirkus True-crime at its best Booklist This fascinating ... account combines a police procedural with a vivid historical portrait of culture and law enforcement in Nazi-occupied France Publishers Weekly A new masterpiece of true-crime writing Salon.com
Author Information
David King is the author of Vienna, 1814; How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War and Peace at the Congress of Vienna and Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World. He is a Fulbright scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University and lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and children.
