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Murder in the Métro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France

Murder in the Métro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France

Finley-Croswhite, Annette
Brunelle, Gayle K.

Paperback

French HistoryGeneral World HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0807145610
ISBN13: 9780807145616
Publisher: Louisiana St Univ Pr
Published: May 9 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Dorée station in the Paris Métro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever murder in the Paris Métro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as journalists and the police slowly uncovered the shocking truth about the victim: a twenty-nine-year-old Italian immigrant, the beautiful and elusive Laetitia Toureaux. Toureaux toiled each day in a factory, but spent her nights working as a spy in the seamy Parisian underworld. Just as the dangerous spy Mata Hari fascinated Parisians of an earlier generation, the mystery of Toureaux's murder held the French public spellbound in pre-war Paris, as the police tried and failed to identify her assassin.

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