When the painting is finally recovered in Florence in 1913, the reader is left as unsatisfied by the Hooblers’ scattered history as by the Italian-born thief’s dubious rationale for the theft. It would not be so simple.In The Crimes of Paris, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the gripping story of the theft and the investigation that followed. 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. Theft provides one of the book’s rare dramatic sections. We have been interviewed on All Things Considered and other radio programs, appeared in a televised documentary, and appeared onscreen in a film about the theft. A lengthy look at the Parisian art scene is overly digressive, though Picasso and his pal Apollinaire’s tenuous connection to the Mona Lisa

Part fast-paced thriller and part social history, The Crimes of Paris is a book you cant put down. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection. The Official Website of Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 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 popular serials, to real 19th-century figures such as Vidocq, a former criminal turned investigator who inspired Poe-and Alphonse Bertillon, whose criminal identification system based on body measurements was a precursor to the science of biometrics. The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection - Kindle edition by Hoobler, Thomas, Hoobler, Dorothy. 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. ) unwieldy account of life and crime in belle époque Paris. A chronicle of crimes in Belle Epoque Paris - including the Mona Lisas theft - and the detective who used science to. Serves as the centerpiece for the Edgar Award–winning Hooblers’ ( In Darkness Death

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