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Traces the life and crimes of Dr. Marcel Petiot.

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Paris, during the German Occupation, seemed glassy-eyed and punch-drunk.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE

CHAPTER I : "The Charnel House;" the story begins on Saturday, March 11, 1944

CHAPTER II: Flashback: child, young man, World War I soldier, disability-discharged combat psycho with pension wins an M.D. degree, 1897-1922

CHAPTER III: Doctor and mayor of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, 1923-33

CHAPTER IV: Prewar Paris, 1933-36

CHAPTER V: Espionage production, 1936-44

CHAPTER VI: Initial Paris liquidation and the beginnings of a plan, 1941-43

CHAPTER VII: Dr. Eugene's escape agency, 1941-43

CHAPTER VIII: Dr. Eugene versus the German Gestapo, 1942-44

CHAPTER IX: The murderer lives at Number 21, a 1942 thriller movie, 1944

CHAPTER X: Dr. Petiot, alias Captain Valery, alias Dr. Wetterwald, arrested by Simonin, alias Soutif, and a DGER order disappears, 1944

CHAPTER XI: First week of Petiot trial, March 18-25, 1946

CHAPTER CHAPTER XII: Second week of Petiot trial, March 26-31, 1946

CHAPTER XIII: Third week of Petiot trial, April 1-7, 1946

CHAPTER XIV: The execution of Dr. Petiot and what happened to his rivals, accomplices, and fellow criminals; the Petiot books, stories and legends that followed; Saturday, May 25th, 1946 -- and after

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This book is in True Crime: Murder For Profit. (community list)
This book is in True Crime: Double Life. (community list)
This book is in True Crime-historical. (community list)

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  1. John V. Grombach (Author)

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Reading Level: Young Adults

OK for teens or adults.

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  2. true crime 

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