The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot

✍ Scribed by Maeder, Thomas

• Book ID: 109149793
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781504038522

✦ Synopsis

The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris.

On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement of 21 rue Le Sueur, they made the first of many gruesome discoveries: a human hand dangling from the open door of a coal-burning stove.

Proceeding to the rear of the home, detectives found rib cages, skulls, and internal organs strewn across the floor and large piles of quicklime mixed with fragments of bone and flesh. The Gestapo had two offices in the neighborhood—were Hitler's henchmen responsible for the carnage? Or was it the work of French Resistance fighters purging Paris of traitors and German spies?

As the investigation unfolded, a more sinister possibility emerged. The building's owner, Dr. Marcel Petiot, was a handsome and...