The Paris Train Killer

Based on a real 19th-century French case, The Paris Train Killer – A French True Crime Thriller plunges readers into the dark side of the Second Empire’s shiny new railways.
An elegant doctor is found half-dead beside the tracks, thrown from a moving train, his memory erased. Months later, a powerful judge is discovered shot in his locked first-class compartment when the Paris express arrives at the station.
Same line. Same pattern. One invisible killer.
Police Commissioner Élie Singer, a widowed investigator in Mulhouse, begins to connect the dots. While Paris talks of terrorism and plots against Napoléon III, Singer follows the trail of a young Alsatian deserter with a gift for disguises and a taste for rose perfume – a man who uses trains as his hunting ground and always stays one station ahead.
Blending gripping storytelling with real police files, letters and photographs, this historical true crime book will fascinate fans of true crime, historical mystery, European crime fiction and railway thrillers.