![]() Most recently, he is author of Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris (2014) and The Kennedy Baby: The Loss that Transformed JFK (2013).īefore taking on the greatest job in the world as nonfiction editor, he worked for the Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Associated Press and China Daily, with stints in Beijing, Hong Kong and Paris. He also writes books and plays and does some book reviewing. Steven Levingston is the nonfiction editor of the Washington Post. ![]() Education-B.A., University of California-Berkeley M.A., Stanford University.When Toussaint-Augustin Gouffe entered 3, rue Tronson du Coudray, expecting a delightful assignation with the comely Gabrielle Bompard, he was instead murdered by Gabrielle and her lover, Michel Eyraud.Īn international manhunt chased the infamous couple from Paris to America’s West Coast, culminating in a sensational trial that investigated the power of hypnosis to possess, control, and even kill.Īs the inquiry into the guilt or innocence of the woman the French tabloids dubbed the "Little Demon" intensified, the most respected minds in France vehemently debated: Was Gabrielle Bompard the pawn of her mesmerizing lover or simply a coldly calculating murderess capable of killing a man in cold blood? ( From the publisher.) In 1889, the gruesome murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress launched the trial of the century. ![]() ![]() Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder in Belle Epoque Paris ![]()
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