Centered around the brutal and shocking assassination of the Duke of Orleans, brother to the King of France.Returned home one night, he was set upon by a gang of mounted ruffians who bashed in his skull and left him for dead on the cobblestone street of Rue Vieille du Temple. Jager’s retelling of the incident…
REVIEW: INVENTION OF MURDER by Judith Flanders
Despite the title, this delightful tome is nearly 500 pages of salacious details of crime and murder in Victorian England — plus almost 100 pages of notes, bibliography and index. For someone like me, it’s a treasure trove of the ignoble and infamous. I admit, I got a little giddy when the book arrived. It…
MESRINE: Parts Un et Deux (2008)
I have rarely been so entranced by what is primarily an action movie. So far-reaching is the protagonist’s mayhem that it took two full-length films to show just pieces of his exploits. There could easily have been a third. Part 1 – Killer Instinct Part 2 – Public Enemy No. 1 The saga begins in…