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

by Hoobler, Dorothy; Hoobler, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780316017909
• ISBN10: 0316017906
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-27
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

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 theMona Lisafrom 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....

Author Biography

Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, a married couple, are the authors of The Monsters, a chronicle of the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Their novel, In Darkness, Death, won a 2005 Edgar Award. They live in New York City.

Table of Contents

Theft	p. 3
The City of Light	p. 8
Searching for a Woman	p. 43
Sympathy for the Devil	p. 68
Science vs. Crime	p. 95
The Man Who Measured People	p. 140
The Suspects	p. 177
The Motor Bandits	p. 208
The Thief	p. 249
Cherchez la Femme	p. 268
The Greatest Crime	p. 305
Afterword
The Mastermind	p. 315
Acknowledgments	p. 321
Notes	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 341
Index	p. 359
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