Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France

by Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite

Book Overview

On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Doree station in the Paris Metro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever murder in the Paris Metro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as journalists and the police slowly uncovered the shocking truth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807136166
• ISBN13: 9780807136164
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"