![]() ![]() Upon entering, the two police officers are horrified to discover two coal stoves with charred human remains. The crimes began to unravel on a March evening in 1944 when police respond to complaints from neighbors about toxic odors spilling from the chimney of a townhouse at 21 rue La Sueur. King draws readers into the shadowy world of Paris during the waning years of World War II. Using sources that include never-beforereleased police files, Mr. ![]() “Death in the City of Light” is the gripping, rapidfire suspense story of one of the most terrifying serial killers ever, a man who few of us have ever heard of.Īuthor David King was browsing through old books in an antiquarian bookshop in Paris when he stumbled upon a wartime memoir that documented the serial killings of Marcel Petiot, a ruthless murderer who was eventually charged with 27 grisly deaths. ![]() If you like true crime, put this book at the top of your reading list. ![]()
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