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- ISBN
- 9780393239782
- Book Title
- City of Light, City of Poison : Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Murder / General, Europe / France, General, Law Enforcement, Modern / 17th Century
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 20.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Information
Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world," the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light. The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic--not even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly back-stabbing world of the king's court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris's most illustrious churches and cathedrals. As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: Could Louis's mistresses could be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king. From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie's compulsive note-taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker's riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe on the page.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393239780
ISBN-13
9780393239782
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228947555
Product Key Features
Book Title
City of Light, City of Poison : Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Europe / France, General, Law Enforcement, Modern / 17th Century
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hv8206.P3t83 2017
Reviews
Translated by Yvette Siegert, this collection recalls a collusion of whimsy and gravitas apparent in Cortázar's work while simultaneously presenting the poet's own unique lyric sensibility., City of Light, City of Poison [is] a cop drama of sorts, intermingled with a historian's tenacious pursuit of the evidence. . . . Tucker's way with a lavish description will have you planning your all-star adaptation of the book. . . . Fascinating., At once bewitching and chilling, the dark story of toxic intrigue, murder, and mayhem in the Sun King's France reads like the most gripping thriller, thanks to Holly Tucker's storytelling flair and relentless research. All the more horrifying because it is historical, this book immerses the reader in the details of black magic and crime that suffused all levels of 17th century society. -- Adrienne Mayor, author of The Poison King Imagine a novel full of sex and betrayal, conspiracy and politics, murder and magic, detective work and justice. Holly Tucker has written one-except this isn't fiction: it just reads like it. Every page of this gripping story is rooted in archival fact, and yet nothing is quite as it seems. Her characters yearn for the truth but are beguiled by deceptions and disguises, and menaced at every turn by deadly danger. A colorful, fascinating and unsettling journey into a lost historical world. -- Malcolm Gaskill, author of Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy plus a short intro to Witchcraft, Holly Tucker tells [this] story . . . with great gusto and with an amazing array of facts. City of Light, City of Poison conjures up 17th century Paris and makes it seem close to the present day., [Holly Tucker] has unearthed and brought to life a treasure trove of court documents and notes. . . . [City of Light, City of Poison] provides stunning insights into the real filth of Louis XIV's reign . . . [and is] completely absorbing, especially because of the wealth of everyday life detail Tucker provides., In her fascinating book, Holly Tucker fuses history and mystery to create the dramatic effect of a novel while remaining true to the real-life plots and poisons of France's seventeenth century... A genuinely illuminating study of a remarkably amoral moment in human history., At once bewitching and chilling, the dark story of toxic intrigue, murder, and mayhem in the Sun King's France reads like the most gripping thriller, thanks to Holly Tucker's storytelling flair and relentless research., A stylish study of crimes committed by the high and mighty during the 72-year reign of the Sun King. . . . Tucker writes with gusto . . . [and] finds high drama., City of Light, City of Poison is not only a serious, meticulously researched work of nonfiction, it is an irresistible story. Full of danger, mystery, and excitement, it will keep you up well into the night, marveling at this forgotten world of dark intrigue., Tucker's narrative is rich in document and detail, while never losing sight of these historical events as a compelling police procedural, unfolding at a moment when the process of modern police investigation was just being invented., An intriguing amalgam of historical evocation and crime narrative. . . . Tucker tells the story as if it were a classic whodunit, bringing alive an extremely complicated and baffling series of events., Tucker . . . vividly brings to life a slice of Parisian history in [a] rigorously researched true-crime epic . . . [that] reads like a combination of the most compelling mystery fiction and Dumas's romances of twisted court intrigues., Imagine a novel full of sex and betrayal, conspiracy and politics, murder and magic, detective work and justice. Holly Tucker has written one--except this isn't fiction: it just reads like it., A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying.
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-046270
Dewey Decimal
363.2092
Dewey Edition
23
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