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The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

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ONE OF KIRKUS'S 20 BEST BOOKS OF JANUARY
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The "endlessly compelling" (NYT Book Review) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on the eve of WWII.


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