City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Holly Tucker
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- France
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780393355437
- ISBN-10
- 0393355438
- Vendor: Mia Karts
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
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ISBN: 0393355438
Author: Tucker, Holly
Condition: New
"An artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling." -The New YorkerIn 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 kings court at Versailles. Based on court transcripts and Reynies compulsive note-taking, Holly Tuckers 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. 8 pages of illustrations; 1 map
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