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Author : Dennis Bardens
Release : 1998-08
Genre : Murder
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Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The ladykiller : the crimes of Landru, the French Bluebeard by : Dennis Bardens
Download or read book The ladykiller : the crimes of Landru, the French Bluebeard written by Dennis Bardens. This book was released on 1998-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bardens, Dennis
Release : 1990
Genre : Murderers
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ladykiller : the Life of Landru, the French Bluebeard by : Bardens, Dennis
Download or read book The Ladykiller : the Life of Landru, the French Bluebeard written by Bardens, Dennis. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Bardens
Release : 1972
Genre :
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Book Rating : 409/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ladykiller by : Dennis Bardens
Download or read book The Ladykiller written by Dennis Bardens. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Tomlinson
Release : 2018-10-30
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 317/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Landru's Secret by : Richard Tomlinson
Download or read book Landru's Secret written by Richard Tomlinson. This book was released on 2018-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Gaston Leroux
Release : 2016-08-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 702/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Bloody Doll by : Gaston Leroux
Download or read book The Bloody Doll written by Gaston Leroux. This book was released on 2016-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BLOODY DOLL: “La Poupee Sanglante”, the classic novel of vampirism and serial murder by Gaston Leroux, author of The Phantom Of The Opera, is finally published in a new and completely unexpurgated translation. One night, the voyeur Benedict Masson spies on Christine, the watchmaker’s beautiful daughter; after witnessing the watchmaker murder Gabriel, her handsome lover, he is propelled into a fantastic carnival of encounters with a series of grotesque characters, including a voracious, ancient vampire known as the brucolac, and his servants, the sinister members of an oriental death cult. Masson must now attempt to find the answers to several vexing questions. Who was the mysterious Gabriel – in what way might he be connected to the watchmaker’s experiments in mechanics and his claim to have achieved perpetual motion? What has this got to do with the sinister Marquis de Coulteray, the watchmaker’s landlord? Why have a series of young women disappeared in the vicinity of Benedict’s villa in the countryside? But nothing is ever as it seems in the world of Gaston Leroux. THE BLOODY DOLL was written in the aftermath of the trial and execution of Henri Désiré Landru, also known as “the French Bluebeard”, one of the most notorious serial killers in French criminal history. A mixture of detective fiction, horror and romance that will be familiar immediately to readers of Leroux’s more famous works, the book will also appeal to fans of Poe, Conan Doyle and Stoker, refracted through a lens of early 20th Century proto-steampunk pulp fiction. It can be read as either a satire on the famous case of Landru, or simply enjoyed as an incredibly entertaining, blood-splattered adventure from the archives of a master storyteller.
