HERE FOLLOWS THE PROLOGUE IN BOTH ENGLISH AND FRENCH OF MY STILL UNPUBLISHED NOVEL – FOR THE LOVE OF A POET. (POUR L’AMOUR D’UN POЀTE.) YOU CAN READ FURTHER ABOUT THE NOVEL ABOVE UNDER PASTERNAK AND I. FOR THE LOVE OF A POET BY MARILYN Z. TOMLINS Prologue April 2000 : Moscow (Gerald [...]
DIE IN PARIS The true story of France’s most notorious serial killer By Marilyn Z. Tomlins Prologue Saturday, May 25, 1946 In the predawn hours of Saturday, May 25, 1946, the residents of Rue de la Santé in Paris’s fourteenth arrondissement— district— were awakened by car doors slamming and men’s voices. Accustomed [...]
If you want to know a little more about my work and my future projects do read Andi’s Book Reviews DIE IN PARIS - The True Story of France’s Most Notorious Serial Killer. In the coming months this book will also be published in French, Latin American Spanish, Latin American Portuguese, German, Bengali [...]
The Paris Blog is rightfully called the ‘Paris Blog with Gaul’. You are visiting Paris and want advice or a good hotel? Or you lived here once and are filled with nostalgia for the place? Or you are an expat and just love the place to bits? Or you are French? Whichever it is, [...]
If there was something that tourists really hated about a Paris sidewalk, it was the dog messes. Yes, Paris was famous for its dirty sidewalks because Paris doggies lacked the little civil thing of hanging on until they reached the curb in the event of a call from nature. However, these days seeing a dog [...]
In 2008 the world learned with shock of an Austrian father, Josef Fritzl, who had held his own daughter Elisabeth captive as his sex slave for all of 24 years. Elisabeth had in that time given birth to 7 children father by him. You can read my article here. Meanwhile here is [...]
I have just reviewed on Amazon.com ‘Final Night’ a book of short stories by Buthaina Al Nasiri. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi,born in Iraq in 1947, who lives in exile in Cairo, Egypt. She is a wonderful writer, and I would like you, who read this now, to order her book because [...]
It is the law in France that no street, square, or building is to be named after a living person. Mrs Thatcher having passed away an UMP – Union pour un Movement Populaire – councillor, Jérôme Dubus, motioned at a Paris municipal meeting that a street or square in Paris should be named [...]
You can read more reviews of Die in Paris here on Dark Phantom and here on the Book Blogs site.
Susan Keefe, one of Amazon’s top reviewers has reviewed my DIE IN PARIS. The book is available both as an e-Book and Paperback on Amazon. ON SUSAN KEEF’E’S WEBSITE
Saad Al-Hilli Please leave your comments on this post now. UPDATE MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013 Alexander Cartier, one of our commentators, went to Chevaline this weekend and filmed the road and the lay-by of the murder scene. You can view it here on YouTube. Do what the video and leave a message for Alexander. UPDATE [...]
I will start with a quotation by Groucho Marx (1890-1977), comedian, actor and the man with the quick wit. He said: “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” I will quote another witty comedian and actress: Lily Tomlin. She once said: “I [...]
If you are in Paris, or planning a visit before Sunday, June 9 this year (2013) then you have to visit the Orsay Museum – Musée d’Orsay – to see its new temporary exhibition: The Angel of the Odd – Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst. It is wonderful. The first part of [...]
The Easter tourists are here – here in Paris. Just the other day the last of the February tourists had left which was just after the Christmas tourists had left. And here some thousands of tourists are back. But who is complaining apart from me who would love to have the Mona Lisa all [...]
I am from now on to list my articles on Amazon.com’s Kindle Store. You will be able to download them for free if you are listed on Amazon.com’s Prime. If you are not then you would have to pay a very very small fee to download them. If you do not have a Kindle [...]
