Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-occupied ParisCrown, 2011 - 416 頁 "Death in the City of Light" is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian underworld. The main suspect was Dr. Marcel Petiot, a handsome, charming physician with remarkable charisma. He was the "People's Doctor," known for his many acts of kindness and generosity, not least in providing free medical care for the poor. Petiot, however, would soon be charged with twenty-seven murders, though authorities suspected the total was considerably higher, perhaps even as many as 150. Who was being slaughtered, and why? Was Petiot a sexual sadist, as the press suggested, killing for thrills? Was he allied with the Gestapo, or, on the contrary, the French Resistance? Or did he work for no one other than himself? Trying to solve the many mysteries of the case, Massu would unravel a plot of unspeakable deviousness. When Petiot was finally arrested, the French police hoped for answers. But the trial soon became a circus. Attempting to try all twenty-seven cases at once, the prosecution stumbled in its marathon cross-examinations, and Petiot, enjoying the spotlight, responded with astonishing ease. His attorney, Rene Floriot, a rising star in the world of criminal defense, also effectively, if aggressively, countered the charges. Soon, despite a team of prosecuting attorneys, dozens of witnesses, and over one ton of evidence, Petiot's brilliance and wit threatened to win the day. Drawing extensively on many new sources, including the massive, classified French police file on Dr. Petiot, "Death in the City of Light" is a brilliant evocation of Nazi-Occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions. |
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Preface | 1 |
German Night | 9 |
The Peoples Doctor | 18 |
Preliminary Findings | 29 |
Two Witnesses | 39 |
100000 Autopsies | 49 |
The Woman with the Yellow Suitcase | 60 |
Beside a Monster | 67 |
Interrogations | 202 |
Beating Chance? | 214 |
The Knellers | 225 |
The Petiot Circus | 236 |
Not in Danger of Death | 246 |
Two to One | 253 |
Inside Murder House | 260 |
Black Fingernails | 269 |
A Delivery | 74 |
Evasion | 82 |
Goodbye Arrogance | 90 |
Sightings | 94 |
The Gestapo File | 105 |
Postcards from the Other Side | 118 |
Destination Argentina | 127 |
War in the Shadows | 139 |
The Attic | 146 |
Frustration | 156 |
Nine More | 164 |
The List | 172 |
Apocalyptic Weeks | 178 |
P S Destroy All My Letters | 188 |
At SaintMandéTourelle Station | 193 |
A Taste for Evil | 278 |
The Hairdresser the Makeup Artist and the Adventuress | 287 |
Walkout | 295 |
Naufrageur | 302 |
The Verdict | 310 |
Timbers of Justice | 320 |
The Loot | 327 |
Epilogue | 335 |
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Notes | 358 |
Illustration Credits | 401 |
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