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  • A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
  • 著者: Steven Levingston
  • ナレーター: John Lee
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Little Demon in the City of Light

著者: Steven Levingston
ナレーター: John Lee
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A delicious account of a murder most gallic - think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon - whose lurid comibation of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.

Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling - and so wonderfully French - story of a gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress and the international manhunt, sensational trial, and an inquiry into the limits of hypnotic power that ensued.

In France at the end of the 19th century a great debate raged over the question of whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit a crime in violation of his or her moral convictions. When Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé entered 3, rue Tronson du Coudray, he expected nothing but a delightful assignation with the comely young Gabrielle Bompard. Instead, he was murdered - hanged! - by her and her companion Michel Eyraud. The body was then stuffed in a trunk and dumped on a riverbank near Lyon.

As the inquiry into the guilt or innocence of the woman the French tabloids dubbed the "Little Demon" escalated, the most respected minds in France debated whether Gabrielle Bompard was the pawn of her mesmerizing lover or simply a coldly calculating murderess. And, at the burning center of it all: Could hypnosis force people to commit crimes against their will?

©2014 Steven Levingston (P)2014 Blackstone Audio

批評家のレビュー

"This is an amazing tale of sex and hypnosis and murder in Paris, and it’s all true. Levingston has produced both a ‘mesmerizing’ crime story and also a fascinating look at science and society in the late 19th century." (Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs)
"Vividly conjuring a sweeping cast of characters who reflect the lusty excess and dark anxieties of the times, Little Demon in the City of Light paints a lavish portrait of Belle Époque Paris while unfurling one of the most compelling murder trials in the city’s history. With penetrating insight and radiant style, Steven Levingston has crafted a mesmerizing true story." (Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City and American Rose)

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Editors Select, February 2014 - Fans of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City will love Little Demon, which also examines a sensational crime set in a major city during a glamorous period of history. In late 19th century Paris, hypnotism spread like wildfire through the clinics and drawing rooms of fashionable Europe and North America; part parlor game, part pure charlatanism, and part science. This is the setting of a gruesome murder committed by con man Michel Eyraud, and his mistress Gabrielle Bompard (the woman who would become as "Little Demon"). The incredible facts of the case, the extended manhunt, and the dramatic courtroom scenes, and a head-line grabbing defense of "hypnotism", need no embellishment from the true story. Was Gabrielle in fact hypnotized by her lover, as she claimed, during the commission of the murder? If so, to what extent did that erode her free will and affect her complicity? This was a fascinating read, and renowned narrator John Lee is sure to add the perfect voice to a riveting story of murder and mesmerism that paints a lavish portrait of Belle Époque Paris. —Tricia, Audible Editor

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