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The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection

The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection

Hoobler, Dorothy
Hoobler, Thomas

Hardcover

Art HistoryFrench HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0316017906
ISBN13: 9780316017909
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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