Death in the City of Light King David
Death in the City of Light King David THE MOST AMAZING TRUE STORY SINCE AGENT ZIGZAG OCCUPIED PARIS, 1944. Nazis march through the streets. A swastika crowns the Eiffel Tower. The property's owner,…
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Death in the City of Light King David
THE MOST AMAZING TRUE STORY SINCE AGENT ZIGZAG OCCUPIED PARIS, 1944. Nazis march through the streets. A swastika crowns the Eiffel Tower.
The property's owner, well-to-do Dr Petiot, immediately becomes the prime suspect, but he has vanished without a trace. And in the dark heart of the city, a madman is at work ...At a chic Right Bank address, a horrific pile of dismembered bodies is discovered. As the police delve into the doctor's past, a disturbing history of violence and corruption is uncovered.
It seems like a cut-and-dried case, but the investigation soon takes a surprising turn. Is Petiot a sadistic serial killer or a hero of the Resistance? Who are his victims?
In this fascinating true account of a case that gripped wartime Paris, David King draws extensively on new sources to paint a chilling portrait of a murderer whose crimes devastated a city already in the grip of evil.