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Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets--all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murderous anarchists. In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time--the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Immediately, Alphonse Bertillon, a detective world-renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, was called upon to solve the crime. And quickly the Paris police had a suspect: a young Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso....From Publishers WeeklyThe 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa serves as the centerpiece for the Edgar Award–winning Hooblers' (In Darkness Death) unwieldy account of life and crime in belle époque Paris. But the Hooblers devote so much time to the history of detection, in both fiction and real life, that the prized painting's disappearance soon slips the reader's mind. The authors locate the French obsession with the painting's disappearance in a general fascination with crime, from the fictional thief Arsène Lupin, the hero of po

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Author

Dorothy Hoobler & Thomas Hoobler

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316017909

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Thriller, Fiction

Rating

3.66 / 5 (494 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14