Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

CHAPTER 7. “BESIDE A MONSTER”

1 “the intrusion of” Georges Massu, Aveux Quai des Orfèvres. Souvenirs du Commissaire Massu (Paris: La Tour Pointue, undated/1951), 28–29.

2 Massu stalled Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 94.

3 two million bicycles Gilles Perrault and Pierre Azéma, Paris Under the Occupation (New York: The Vendome Press, 1989), 41.

4 “Well, Madame Petiot” Massu, L’enquête Petiot, 94.

5 “I must say” Georgette Petiot, Audition, March 14, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

6 in a low, barely audible Massu, L’enquête Petiot, 94–95.

7 “old books and antiquities” … one hour and a half later Georgette Petiot, Audition, March 14, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

8 Raymonde Hanss Report, June 18, 1936, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

9 “Pull yourself” … “Perhaps rue des Lombards?” Massu, L’enquête Petiot, 96–102; Le Petit Parisien, March 16, 1944; Report, March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

10 Wives of criminals … In which category Massu, L’enquête Petiot, 91.

11 “a little chill” … “I have never known” Maurice Petiot, Audition, March 14, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.