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

Author: Dorothy Hoobler Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, True crime, Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Art, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 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.... Similar books: Death in the City of Light by David King Dawn of the Belle Epoque by Mary McAuliffe The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders Vanished Smile by R. A. Scotti Parisians by Graham Robb Paris by Andrew Hussey Popular Crime by Bill James Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne Paris by Colin Jones Victorian Murderesses by Mary S. Hartman Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr Kidnap by George Waller The Other Paris by Luc Sante H. H. Holmes by Adam Selzer I Was Vermeer by Frank Wynne Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen The Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury Five Points by Tyler Anbinder A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley