The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
6 best books like The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder (Daniel Stashower): Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris, Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, Shiva's Fire, Revolution, The Other Story
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
| Author | David King |
| ISBN | 0307452891 |
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking...
| Author | James Ruddick |
| ISBN | 0802139744 |
In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later...
| Author | Patricia Cline Cohen |
| ISBN | 0679740759 |
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen...
| Author | Suzanne Fisher Staples |
| ISBN | 0064409791 |
This is an Indian story, a magical story, about a girl named Parvati who is born with the fire of music inside her. As she grows, the strangest things seem to happen in her presence and soon it is clear that her heart is full of the dance - classical Indian dance and her destiny leads her to a school that can develop...
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory.
In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales...
| Author | Tatiana de Rosnay |
| ISBN | 1250045134 |
Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas Duhamel is hopeful that the ghosts of his past have finally been put to rest… Now a bestselling author, when he was twenty-four years old, he stumbled upon a troubling secret about his family - a secret that was carefully concealed. In shock,...
