Book Giveaway: The Crimes of Paris

I'm authorized to give away 1 copy. Rules for entry in the drawing are below. Please read them carefully.

The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection
(c) 2009
Pub. Little Brown
384p

Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets--all were there. 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 murderous anarchists. In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time--the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Immediately, Alphonse Bertillon, a detective world-renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, was called upon to solve the crime. And quickly the Paris police had a suspect: a young Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso....

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• Deadline for entering is NOON PST April 11, 2009. I will select the winners with a random number generator using www.random.org
• Winners must provide a US or Canadian mailing address. Hachette is unable to deliver to PO Boxes.