Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris

by Sarah C. Maza

Book Overview

On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozi re gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette's act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era--discussed and debated so passionately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520260708
• ISBN13: 9780520260702
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"