The Crimes of Paris : A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection (Paperback)

from Kasthu

The Crimes of Paris is a book about just that: the crimes that took place in and around Paris from about 1880 to the beginning of World War I. The book's "hook" is the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, but the bulk of the book deals with famous murders, murderers, detectives, and ga...

from bedda

I found this book fascinating. It talks about the theft of the Mona Lisa and keeps coming back to that theme throughout the book but that is not really what the book is about. It starts by setting the scene of Paris and the social and political climate at the time. It talks about art, and how it ...

from angrystarlyt

This book surprised me--although it's foolish to ever rely too heavily on the dust jacket, I thought nonetheless that this book was primarily going to be about the theft of the Mona Lisa. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the huge amount of information the Hooblers threw at me--from art to s...

from ChristineEllei

I picked this book up because it was about the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre at the turn of the century. I love books that deal with real art and/or artists wrapped into the fictional story. (suggestions always welcome) With this book I was slightly deceived, but very pleasantly so. The ...

from bcquinnsmom

The Crimes of Paris is an awesome book, not so much for the promised subject matter of the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, but because of the wealth of information around that particular focal point. From there the authors turn their attention to the state of crime detection up to and of ...