Landru's Secret - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landru's Secret write by Richard Tomlinson. This book was released on 2018-10-30. Landru's Secret available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On 12 April 1919, the Paris police arrested a bald, short, 50-year-old swindler at his apartment near the Gare du Nord, acting on a lead from a humble housemaid. A century later, Henri Désiré Landru remains the most notorious and enigmatic serial killer in French criminal history, a riddle at the heart of an unsolved murder puzzle. The official version of Landrus lethal rampage was so shocking that it almost defied belief. According to the authorities, Landru had made “romantic contact” with 283 women during the First World War, luring ten of them to his country houses outside Paris where he killed them for their money. Yet no bodies were ever found, while Landru obdurately protested his innocence. “It is for you to prove the deeds of which I am accused,” he sneered at the investigating magistrate. The true story of laffaire Landru, buried in the Paris police archives for the past century, was altogether more disturbing. In Landrus Secret, Richard Tomlinson draws on more than 5,000 pages of original case documents, including witness statements, police reports and private correspondence, to reveal for the first time that: Landru killed more women than the 10 victims on the charge sheet. The police failed to trace at least 72 of the women he contacted. The authorities ignored the key victim who explained why the killings began. Landru did not kill for money, but to revel in his power over what he called the “feeble sex”. Lavishly illustrated with previous unpublished photographs, Landrus Secret is a story for our times: a female revengers tragedy starring the mothers and sisters of the missing fiancées, a lethal misogynist and Frances greatest defense lawyer, intent on saving his repulsive client from the guillotine.
Landru
Landru - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landru write by Henri-Désiré Landru. This book was released on 1928. Landru available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the case and the trial of Henri Desíré Landru which took place in November 1921, in Versailles, France, for the murder of 10 women.
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories write by Doug Allyn. This book was released on 2000-09-30. The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the tradition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year's Best Science Fiction, The World's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, First Annual Edition finally fills the void for those with a hunger for the best mystery and suspense stories of the past year. Including such bestselling authors as Jeffrey Deaver, Elizabeth George, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Ed McBain, Anne Perry, and Ruth Rendell, plus many, many others, this volume will positively blow the competition away. For, unlike the other various mystery anthologies, The World's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories collects stories from writers around the globe, including Britain's Silver Dagger short-fiction award winners. It will also be almost twice as big, weighing in at more than 200,000 words, and will arrive two months before the competition. This comprehensive anthology promises to be the definitive annual collection of the very best mystery and suspense stories the world over. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5 write by Ed Gorman. This book was released on 2004-10. The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An annual collection of more than thirty mystery stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany includes pieces by such names as Ruth Rendell, Ed McBain, Barbara Hambly, Ian Rankin, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Secrets Beyond the Door
Secrets Beyond the Door - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secrets Beyond the Door write by Maria Tatar. This book was released on 2006-10-03. Secrets Beyond the Door available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.
