Authors: Jean-Christian Petitfils

Description: L'édition de prestige d'un formidable succès de librairie. Le 27 septembre 52 avant notre ère, tout était réuni pour que Vercingétorix l'emporte à Alésia sur les légions de César ; or, c'est tout l'inverse qui se produisit. Comment expliquer ce désastre où se joua le destin de la Gaule ? Le 29 mai 1968, le général de Gaulle disparaît ; face au mouvement social, eut-il la tentation de se retirer, et qu'est-il allé dire et faire à Baden-Baden ? Le secret de ces heures capitales n'est pas entièrement élucidé. L'Atlantide était-il une contrée emportée par un tsunami au milieu de la mer Egée, ou une métaphore platonicienne ? Certains pensent que le linceul de Turin a enveloppé le corps du Christ, d'autres sont assurés du contraire. Qui a sculpté et dressé ces monumentales figures dans une île improbable du Pacifique Sud ? La grande histoire est faite aussi de ces incidents, hasards et affaires qui ont défrayé la chronique et conservé leur part de mystère tout en influant sur les destinées des pays. Ces énigmes, on s'épuise, parfois depuis des siècles, à les élucider, on s'en irrite souvent, mais elles conservent le charme des secrets de famille. Certaines d'entre elles, pourtant, ont influé sur les destinées du monde. Voici enfin, en un seul volume, ce qu'il est possible de savoir et de comprendre sur quarante d'entre elles, précédemment publiés dans les deux best-sellers dirigés par Jean-Christian Petitfils.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Perrin

Categories: History

Authors: Collectif ,Jean-Christian Petitfils

Description: La suite du best-seller Les énigmes de l'histoire de France. Voici vingt énigmes qu'on s'épuise à élucider, parfois depuis des siècles : on s'en irrite souvent, mais elles conservent le charme des secrets de famille. Certaines, pourtant, ont influé sur les destinées du monde. Le monothéisme d'Akhenaton, l'existence de l'Atlantide, le tombeau d'Alexandre, la personnalité de Shakespeare, la disparition de l'ambassadeur Bathurst, le linceul de Turin, la seconde vie du tsar Alexandre, l'assassinat de Kennedy, l'attentat contre Jean-Paul II, la mort de lady D. n'en sont que quelques-unes... Autant d'épisodes qui continuent d'intriguer et de faire douter... jusqu'à la parution de cet ouvrage.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Tempus Perrin

Categories: History

Authors: Patricia Cornwell

Description: Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus. In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror. An elusive madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in the slums of London’s East End. Police seemed powerless to stop the killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly escalating in violence from victim to victim. And then the Ripper’s violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun. He had struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene. Decades passed, then fifty years, then a hundred, and the Ripper’s bloody sexual crimes became anemic and impotent fodder for puzzles, mystery weekends, crime conventions, and so-called “Ripper Walks” that end with pints of ale in the pubs of Whitechapel. But to number-one New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Ripper murders are not cute little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with, even after death. Now Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the Ripper case than any detective before her—and reveal the true identity of this fabled Victorian killer. In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult serial murder cases in history. Drawing on unparalleled access to original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival, academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the world’s finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert. It has been said of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better than she. Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in 1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britain’s greatest painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by megalomania and hate. She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the press. Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this man’s birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created. New information and startling revelations detailed in Portrait of a Killer include: - How a year-long battery of more than 100 DNA tests—on samples drawn by Cornwell’s forensics team in September 2001 from original Ripper letters and Sickert documents—yielded the first shadows of the 75- to 114 year-old genetic evid...

Langue: en

Publisher: Penguin

Categories: True Crime

Authors: Claude Mesplède

Description: Dictionnaire des littératures policières à vocation encyclopédique proposant aussi bien des articles sur les thèmes caractéristiques du genre policier que sur les collections, les magazines, les auteurs (notices biobibliographiques), les personnages, etc.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Editions Joseph K

Categories: Detective and mystery stories

Authors: Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Description: Cornwell has used the methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the contemporaneous evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders.

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Jack the Ripper Murders, London, England, 1888

Authors: Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Description: Patricia Cornwell turns her trademark skills in meticulous research and scientific expertise to the case of Jack the Ripper. Using modern forensic investigation to re-examine the evidence she is able to reveal the true identity of this elusive madman.

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Serial murderers

Authors: Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Description: Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise on the case of serial murder in the history of crime - the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London. She digs deeper into the case and reveals the true identity of this elusive madman.

Langue: en

Publisher: Chivers

Categories: Social Science

Authors: Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories:

Authors: Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Description: En este documento de investigación, Patricia Cornwell enfoca al misterioso asesino Jack el Destripador, aplicando la rigurosa disciplina de un análisis policial actual y aportando técnicas desconocidas en la época victoriana. Examina todas las evidencias físicas disponibles - miles de documentos, cartas e informes, huellas dactilares, fotografías de las escenas del crimen, y artículos periodíticos de la época - llegando a la conclusión de que, tras el nombre de Jack el Destripador, se ocultaba Walter Sickert, un pintor fascinado por los bajos fondos londinenses.

Langue: es

Publisher:

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Description:

Langue: de

Publisher:

Categories: Serial murders

Authors: Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Description: El cruel asesinato de siete mujeres entre agosto y noviembre de 1888 sembró el pánico en Londres y dio lugar a la leyenda de Jack el Destripador. Pero, ¿quién fue ese misterioso asesino? Patricia Cornwell decidió resolver la incógnita aplicando la rigurosa disciplina de un análisis policial actual y técnicas desconocidas en la época victoriana. Examinó las pruebas físicas disponibles, miles de documentos, cartas e informes, huellas dactilares, fotografías y artículos del momento, y llegó a la conclusión de que tras Jack el Destripador se ocultaba Walter Sickert, un pintor fascinado por los bajos fondos londinenses.

Langue: es

Publisher: Ediciones B - Mexico

Categories: Serial murders

Authors: Patricia Cornwell

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Langue: en

Publisher: HarpLPLuxe

Categories: True Crime

Authors: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

Description: London, 1894. 'I am not a detective, chief constable'. 'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business at hand'. So says police chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde, in a Chelsea drawing room in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle. And thus the three men set out to solve one of the world's most famous mysteries - the ultimate truth about the identity of Jack the Ripper.

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Great Britain