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A delicious accounts of any murder most gallic - think CSI Paris satisfies Georges Simenon - whose lurid comibation of intimacy, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a land and then the world. Little Demon in the town of Light is the thrilling - and so wonderfully French - history of any gruesome 1889 murder of any lascivious court public as a result of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress and the international manhunt, sensational trial, and an inquiry in to the boundaries of hypnotic electricity that ensued. In France at the end of the 19th century a great controversy raged on the question of whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit a offense in violation of his or her moral convictions. When Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé moved into 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 in to the guilt or innocence of the woman the French tabloids dubbed the "Little Demon" escalated, the esteemed intellects in France debated whether Gabrielle Bompard was the pawn of her mesmerizing enthusiast or simply a coldly calculating murderess. And, at the using center of everything: Could hypnotherapy force people to commit offences against their will?

Category: Murder & Mayhem