Enter N&W.com’s The Crimes of Paris Giveaway!
Five lucky Weekend Reminder subscribers will win a copy of Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler’s The Crimes of Paris in our new The Crimes of Paris Giveaway!
Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets—all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murderous anarchists. In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time—the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.
Immediately, Alphonse Bertillon, a detective world-renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, was called upon to solve the crime. And quickly the Paris police had a suspect: a young Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso….
Want to know what happened? You’ll have to pick up a copy of Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler’s The Crimes of Paris—or be one of five lucky Weekend Reminder subscribers who will win their very own copy.
Entering our latest giveaway is no great mystery. All you have to do is sign up and activate your Weekend Reminder subscription (if you’re not already a subscriber) by Monday, April 13, 2009. Then send an email with your name and mailing address (with “The Crimes of Paris” in the subject line) to Contest@nightsandweekends.com. The five winning names will be drawn on April 14.
For more information, visit the Weekend Reminder page.
