Crimes Club
A Record of Secret Investigations Into Some Amazing Crimes, Mostly Withheld From the Public (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Crimes Club: A Record of Secret Investigations Into Some Amazing Crimes, Mostly Withheld From the Public<br><br>"So the affair as it stands is a complete enigma!"<br><br>It was the Baron who spoke. The elegant, brown-bearded, rather sallow-faced Frenchman glanced around at the nine persons sitting at a large, round table in a private room with locked doors at the Caf de L'Univers, an unpretentious little place, in the Rue St. Antoine, in Paris.<br><br>Upon the table were coffee and liqueurs, for the usual monthly dinner of the Crimes Club was being held, and one of its members, Monsieur Lucien Dubosq, a slim, dark-eyed, bearded, elegant man, who was Chef de la Sret, had just related an extraordinary story.<br><br>The others had listened intently, and the Baron had made the remark when Dubosq had finished.<br><br>The assembly was a curious one.<br><br>The membership of the club, formed for the study of the psychology of crime, was confined to ten, and that night all were present.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.