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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Holly TuckerPublish date:2018-04-10Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393355437ISBN-10:393355438UPC:9780393355437Book Category:History, Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Europe, Law Enforcement, MurderBook Topic:FranceSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCDHVPSZTT

In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners, and priests whose reach extends all the way to the king's court at Versailles. Based on court transcripts and Reynie's compulsive note-taking, Holly Tucker's engrossing true-crime narrative makes the characters breathe on the page as she follows the police chief into the dark labyrinths of crime-ridden Paris, the halls of royal palaces, secret courtrooms, and torture chambers.

Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393355437ISBN-10:393355438UPC:9780393355437Book Category:History, Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Europe, Law Enforcement, MurderBook Topic:FranceSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCDHVPSZTT
Tucker, Holly: - Holly Tucker is the author of City of Light, City of Poison and Blood Work, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, and is a professor of French at Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and Aix-en-Provence, France.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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