Death in the city of light the serial killer of Nazi-occupied Paris

King, David, 1970-

Large Print 2011

The gripping true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris. As dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with finding the murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, the Resistance, and the shadowy Parisian underworld. And the main suspect was charismatic physician Marcel Petiot, "The People's Doctor."

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Petiot, Marcel

Serial murderers France Paris Biography

World War, 1939-1945 France

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ISBN:

9781410445469

Description:

756 pages ; 23 cm
large print

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

German night
The people's doctor
Preliminary findings
Two witnesses
"100,00 autopsies"
The woman with the yellow suitcase
"Beside a monster"
A delivery
Evasion
"Goodbye arrogance"
Sightings
The Gestapo file
Postcards from the other side
Destination Argentina
War in the shadows
The attic
Frustration
Nine more
The list
Apocalyptic weeks
"P.S. Destroy all my letters"
At Saint-Mandé-Tourelle Station
Interrogations
Beating chance?
The Knellers
The Petiot Circus
"Not in danger of death"
Two to one
Inside murder house
Black fingernails
"A taste for evil"
The hairdresser, the makeup artist, and the adventuress
Walkout
Naufrageur
The verdict
Timbers of justice
The loot

LCCN:

2011044270

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855628

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