A review by msgtdameron
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King

informative medium-paced

4.0

How does one conduct a criminal investigation when you are the Prefect of Police under the NAZI occupation?If you read this work and follow Detective Inspector Mass you will find out.  The investigation into a psychopath serial murder, Dr. Periot, was conducted with professionalism that is absolutely amazing under the conditions of occupation and the limited forensic measures that were available in1944.  The trial part showed that under the new liberated government of France the trial verdict was most likely predetermined.  But the right man got the guillotine.  Even though Detective Mass was under arrest as a collaborator for doing his job which did require some collaboration with the NAZI's, he was found NOT guilty of collaboration, in 1947 a year after the verdict in the murder trial.  He never got the chanced to interrogate the Dr., which would have made the outcome seem more fair to the Dr.  Good read.