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Murder in the Métro : Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France /
On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte DorTe station in the Paris MTtro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever mu...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2010.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte DorTe station in the Paris MTtro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever murder in the Paris MTtro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as journalists and the police slowly uncovered the shocking truth about the victim: a twenty-nine-year-old Italian immigrant, the beautiful and elusive Laetitia Toureaux. Toureaux toiled each day in a factory, but s. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780807137352 |