Name: The Crimes of Paris

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

Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Year: 2009
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History, True crime, Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Art, Historical fiction

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9780316017909
0316017906
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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