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Author
Language
English
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Description
Nicolas de La Reynie, appointed by Louis XIV as the first police chief of Paris, pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city, unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests, and discovers that the distance between the quiet backstabbing world of the king's court and the criminal underground is disturbingly short. As he continues his investigations, La Reynie suspects that Louis's mistresses are involved...
2) Murder, witchcraft and the killing of wildlife: memoirs of a police officer in the heart of Africa
Publisher
Pen & Sword History, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Stephen joined the Northern Rhodesia Police in 1959, with the express purpose of helping to Africanise the force prior to independence. His investigations took him over a great deal of the country, investigating horrendous and dangerous crimes, and securing more than 125 convictions for wildlife poaching. This was the time of the Belgian Congo debacle, where ethnic cleansing coincided with Stephen R. Matthew's first police posting near the Northern...
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