Download or read book I Am Vidocq A Mystery of Old Paris written by Vincent McConnor and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of baffling cases confront the renowned Vidocq, chief of the famed Surete Nationale, and his loyal staff of reformed criminals that hot summer of 1823. There is the murder of the famous Parisian jeweler, and the murder of Maya, the Spanish whore, shot with the same gun -- and systematic looting of treasures from the great chateaux by The Black Devil, and more. With a heady, rich nineteenth century atmosphere, this mystery is a keeper!
Download or read book Souffle Surprise written by Vincent McConnor and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic mystery originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April 1965.
Download or read book The Black Tower written by Louis Bayard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “delicious” historical mystery featuring a Paris detective and master of disguise by the author of The Pale Blue Eye (Entertainment Weekly). Chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818—and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former medical student living in his mother’s Latin Quarter boardinghouse, Hector finds himself dragged into a dangerous mystery surrounding the fate of the dauphin, the ten-year-old son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette presumed to have suffered a cruel death years earlier in Paris’s dreaded Temple. But the truth of what happened may be even more shocking—and it will fall to an aimless young man and the most feared detective in Paris to see justice done for a frightened little boy in a black tower . . . no matter what the cost. Inspired by the colorful real-life detective who became legendary in his native France, The Black Tower showcases “all the narrative verve and sly wit—both plot twists and turns of phrase—that make [Bayard’s] books such a pleasure to read” (The Washington Post). “Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction, rendering the nineteenth century as if he’d witnessed it firsthand.” —The New York Times Book Review “A writer of historical thrillers in the vein of Caleb Carr, author of The Alienist, and nineteenth-century writers such as Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo.” —The Wall Street Journal “Stellar . . . Few writers today can match the author’s skill in devising an intelligent thriller with heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book Modern French Prisons written by Arthur Griffiths and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, British military officer, prison administrator and author Arthur Griffins discussed the period in French prison practice during the transition between the end of the Old Régime and the start of the New. It presents a view of the prisons of the period immediately following the Revolution. Contents include: After the Revolution The Great Seaport Prisons Celebrated French Convicts The First Great Detective The Combat with Crime Celebrated Cases The Course of the Law Mazas and La Santé Two Model Reformatories A Model Penitentiary
Download or read book The Bench and the Dock written by Charles Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery written by B. Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.
Download or read book Memoirs of Vidocq written by Francois Eugene Vidocq and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A criminal mastermind turns detective in this notorious autobiography filled with outrageous adventures, disguises, and escapes.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Novel written by Peter Melville Logan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.
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Download or read book Life in Paris Or The Adventures of a Marquis written by Eugène François Vidocq and published by Gale and the British Library. This book was released on 1848 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Vidocq written by Eugène François Vidocq and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Vidocq Principal Agent of the French Police Until 1827 and Now Proprietor of the Paper Manufactory at St Mand written by Eugène François Vidocq and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 7 best short stories Paris written by E.T.A. Hoffmann and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Paris is part of the world's fantasy. Whether as the birthplace of democratic revolutions, or as the capital of love and romance. Writers and artists from all over the world have always looked to Paris for inspiration. In this book you will find seven short stories that have the city of Paris as their setting and inspiration: - Mademoiselle De Scudéri - E. T. A. Hoffmann - The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe - A Queer Night in Paris by Guy de Maupassant - A New Leaf - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald - A Street of Paris and Its - Jean Monette By Eugene Francois Vidocq For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
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Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime Modern French Prisons written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1830-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period in French prison practice treated in this volume is one of transition between the end of the Old Régime and the beginning of the New. It presents first a view of the prisons of the period immediately following the Revolution, and concludes with the consideration of a great model penitentiary, which may be said to be the “last word” in the purely physical aspects of the whole question, while its very perfection of structure and equipment gives rise to important moral questions, which must dominate the future of prison conduct. Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century the combat with the great army of depredators was unceasingly waged by the champions of law and order in France, to whom in the long run victory chiefly inclined. As yet none of the new views held by prison reformers in other countries had made any progress in France. No ideas of combining coercion with persuasion, of going beyond deterrence by attempting reformation by exhortation; of curing the wrong-doer and weaning him from his evil practices, when once more sent out into the world, obtained in French penology. At that earlier date all the old methods, worked by the same machinery, still prevailed and were, as ever, ineffective in checking crime. An active, and for the most part intelligent police was indefatigable in the pursuit of offenders, who, when caught and sentenced travelled the old beaten track, passing from prison to prison, making long halts at the bagnes and concluding their persistent trespasses upon the guillotine, but that was all. French prisons long lagged behind advanced practices abroad, not only in respect of their structural fitness and physical condition, but also in the measure in which the method of conducting them effected the morals of those who passed through them. When the question was at last presented, it was considered with the logical thoroughness and carried out with the administrative efficiency characteristic of the French government, when impressed with the necessity for action in any given line. The question for the French prison authorities—as indeed it is the question of questions for the prison government of all nations—is now: “What can be and shall be done for the reform of the convict rather than for his mere repression and punishment?” The material aspects of the French prison system have attained almost to perfection. These, as well as the moral aspects of the subject, which that very physical perfection inevitably presents, it is the purpose of this volume to consider.
Download or read book Memoirs of Vidocq Principal Agent of the French Police written by Eugène François Vidocq and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
