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Book A Little Pattern of French Crime

Download or read book A Little Pattern of French Crime written by Rayner Heppenstall and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commissaire Marquanteur And The Unmistakable Pattern  France Crime Thriller

Download or read book Commissaire Marquanteur And The Unmistakable Pattern France Crime Thriller written by Alfred Bekker and published by Alfredbooks. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Alfred Bekker A new case for Commissaire Marquanteur and his colleagues from Marseille on the Mediterranean coast. Who is killing according to a years-old pattern and tattooing the victims? The perpetrator is no longer alive, but his deeds are copied exactly. Investigators Marquanteur and Leroc are looking for a copycat killer. But what is his motive and where did he get this precise knowledge? Alfred Bekker is a well-known author of fantasy novels, crime thrillers and books for young people. In addition to his major book successes, he has written numerous novels for suspense series such as Ren Dhark, Jerry Cotton, Cotton Reloaded, Kommissar X, John Sinclair and Jessica Bannister. He has also published under the names Jack Raymond, Robert Gruber, Neal Chadwick, Henry Rohmer, Conny Walden and Janet Farell.

Book A Harlot High and Low

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  • Author : Honoré de Balzac
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 1985-09-26
  • ISBN : 0141960744
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book A Harlot High and Low written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1985-09-26 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. Lost Illusions is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.

Book French Crime in the Romantic Age

Download or read book French Crime in the Romantic Age written by Rayner Heppenstall and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1970 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime  Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France

Download or read book Crime Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France written by Julius R. Ruff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1984, is a case study of crime and criminal justice in rural, southwestern France in the last century of the Old Regime. Based on extensive research in criminal court records, often the only documentary evidence of the poor and illiterate, the study is a valuable addition both to our knowledge of Old Regime society and to our understanding of its judicial institutions. Rural, Old Regime France seethed with violence. Assault, homicide, and a violence of speech occurred frequently at all levels of society. The author’s finding that royal fiscal and judicial officials were recurring targets of this violence additionally contributes to our understanding of the revolutionary events ending the Old Regime. This system, providing in principle for judicial torture and corporal and capital punishments for relatively minor crimes, has long epitomized much that was wrong with pre-revolutionary France. But the law in principle is not the law in practice, and the author finds that both local and appeals courts seldom decreed such measures. This book will be of interest to students of history and criminology.

Book Commissaire Marquanteur And The Dead Mademoiselles  France Crime Thriller

Download or read book Commissaire Marquanteur And The Dead Mademoiselles France Crime Thriller written by Alfred Bekker and published by Alfredbooks. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Alfred Bekker A serial killer is killing blonde women with curls. When FoPoCri takes on the case, the killer has been active for several years and leaves no traces behind. It is only when the latest dead bodies are found that things seem to be moving. Commissaire Marquanteur and his team of investigators in Marseille have to use all their skills to track down the killer. Alfred Bekker is a well-known author of fantasy novels, crime thrillers and books for young people. In addition to his major book successes, he has written numerous novels for suspense series such as Ren Dhark, Jerry Cotton, Cotton Reloaded, Kommissar X, John Sinclair and Jessica Bannister. He has also published under the names Jack Raymond, Robert Gruber, Neal Chadwick, Henry Rohmer, Conny Walden and Janet Farell.

Book Crime  Madness and Politics in Modern France

Download or read book Crime Madness and Politics in Modern France written by Robert A. Nye and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book French Crime Fiction  1945   2005

Download or read book French Crime Fiction 1945 2005 written by Margaret-Anne Hutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over a hundred and fifty texts spanning more than sixty years. Included are well-known writers (male and female) such as Aubert, Simenon, Boileau-Narcejak, Vargas, Daeninckx, and Jonquet, as well as a broad range of lesser-known authors. Hutton's introduction situates her study within the larger framework of literary representations of World War II, setting the stage for her discussions of genre; the problem of defining crimes and criminals in the context of the war; the epistemological issues that arise in the relationship between World War II historiography and the crime novel; and the temporal textures linking past crimes to the present. Filling a gap in the fields of crime fiction and fictional representations of the War, Hutton's book calls into question the way both crime fiction and the French theatre of World War II have been conceptualized and codified.

Book The New Murderers  Who s who

Download or read book The New Murderers Who s who written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""I met murder on the way" wrote Shelley, and who of us has not met murder in some form or another-on the way? In our books and newspapers, on the radio and television, some famous murder will be mentioned and we will want to know more about it. This revised and updated edition of a classic work is a reference book with a difference-it features hundreds of notorious murderers-from Jack the Ripper to Jack Henry Abbott. The entries, spanning a period of more than 160 years, are listed alphabetically and give full treatment to some of the most ghastly crimes in history. THE NEW MURDERERS' WHO'S WHO also includes more than 150 contemporary photographs, drawings and newspaper cuttings, and a bibliography of more than a thousand titles to guide the reader to books of further interest. More than 100 entries examining new trends in murder such as serial killings and mass murder have been added."--Jacket

Book The Woman Before Wallis

Download or read book The Woman Before Wallis written by Andrew Rose and published by Picador. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the glittering dance halls of Paris during World War I to the maisons de rendezvous, luxurious châteaus in the French countryside, The Woman Before Wallis recounts the untold story of Prince Edward's tempestuous affair with a Parisian courtesan and the scandalous aftermath that has remained secret until now. Prince Edward was the King of England when he famously abdicated his crown over his love for the American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But two decades earlier, he was an inexperienced young man, stationed behind the lines during World War I, socializing with the elite aristocracy of Europe while fellow soldiers were being shelled in the trenches. Gradually, the awkward young man, who was desperate to see action, became involved in a very different sort of action—when his path crossed with the queen of the Paris demimonde. Marguerite Alibert was a beautiful but tough Parisian who had fought her way up from street gamine to a woman haut de gamme, possibly the highest-ranking courtesan in Paris. She entertained some of the richest and most powerful men in the world—from princes to pashas. When the inexperienced Prince Edward was introduced to the alluring Marguerite, he was instantly smitten. After their tumultuous love affair ended, Edward thought he was free of Marguerite, but he was wrong. Several years later, Marguerite murdered her husband—a wealthy Egyptian playboy—by shooting him three times in the back at the Savoy Hotel in London. When Marguerite stood trial for murder, Edward was at risk of having his affair and behavior during the war exposed. What happened next was kept from the public for decades, uncovered thanks to exceptional access to unpublished documents held in the Royal Archives and private collections in England and France.

Book Marquanteur And The Cunning Murderer  France Crime Thriller

Download or read book Marquanteur And The Cunning Murderer France Crime Thriller written by Alfred Bekker and published by Alfredbooks. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Alfred Bekker A new case for Commissaire Pierre Marquanteur and his colleagues in the southern French port city of Marseille. Someone is driving criminals who are part of organized crime to commit suicide. The perpetrator remains unknown; because of his perfectly thought-out plans and ability to avoid any clues, he is known as 'Monsieur Super Malin', or Mr. Super Smart . But then the pattern of murders changes. Detectives Marquanteur and Leroc are faced with another mystery. Alfred Bekker is a well-known author of fantasy novels, crime thrillers and books for young people. In addition to his major book successes, he has written numerous novels for suspense series such as Ren Dhark, Jerry Cotton, Cotton Reloaded, Kommissar X, John Sinclair and Jessica Bannister. He has also published under the names Jack Raymond, Robert Gruber, Neal Chadwick, Henry Rohmer, Conny Walden and Janet Farell.

Book The Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 2172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Book Global Report on Crime and Justice

Download or read book Global Report on Crime and Justice written by Graeme R. Newman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and data gathered by the UN Centre for International Crime Prevention. The work combines a wealth of information about crime and justice from UN member states and beyond, and presents emerging crime trends and operations of criminal justice systems on a comparative basis.

Book The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France  1670 1789

Download or read book The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France 1670 1789 written by Albert N. Hamscher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the French monarchy's role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm between 1670 and 1789.

Book The Criminologist

Download or read book The Criminologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime and the Development of Modern Society

Download or read book Crime and the Development of Modern Society written by Howard Zehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976. This study deals with crime as social history in Germany and France during the nineteenth century. It establishes the broad statistical patterns of crime over the century so that the crime phenomenon can be analysed in the light of the other main trends of economic and social life. One basic concern is the relationship between crime and economic condition. The second main issue is to establish whether specifically rural and urban patterns of crime can be isolated. The third main concern is to establish whether any relationship existed between patterns of delinquency and the social upheaval which accompanied industrialisation and urbanisation. These three main issues continue as important questions in considering modern day crime. Nineteenth century Germany and France provide an excellent context in which to examine them because of the substantial urbanisation and industrialisation which occurred between 1830 and 1914. As well as providing an important contribution to the history of nineteenth century society this book also indicates important lessons for the contemporary world.

Book Progress in Urban Geography  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Progress in Urban Geography Routledge Revivals written by Michael Pacione and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A substantial proportion of the world’s population now live in towns and cities, so it is not surprising that urban geography has emerged as a major focus for research. This edited collection, first published in 1983, is concerned with the effects on the city of a wide range of economic, social and political processes, including pollution, housing, health and finance. With a detailed introduction to the themes and developments under discussion written by Michael Pacione, this comprehensive work provides an essential overview for scholars and students of urban geography and planning.