A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
by
Steven Levingston
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A delicious true crime account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.
In 1889, the gruesome murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless...