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Written by Waucoma Bookstore
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 |
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The Crimes of Paris
by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Hachette, $24.99
Paris at the turn of the century -- city of light,
city of decadence, poised on the cusp of modernity. This book is about
the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, but the authors
also explore in detail many related -- and intriguing -- topics:
forensic science, art history, detective fiction, and the character of
Paris itself at this unique point in history. The atuhors' engaging
style -- scholarly in scope yet compulsively readable -- brings the
setting alive through fascinating details and stranger-than-fiction
anecdotes. ~Sasha
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