1788 · 18th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · ItalyMadame Will Wait No Longer
Drawn from the Bonanno affair, a fateful interview takes an unexpected cou…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe First Day of the Year
A New Year’s Day visit ended in two murders within the Campisiano househol…
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1699 · 17th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceMonsieur Tiquet Was Still Alive
A parliamentary magistrate survives an ambush of pistol shots. The ensuing…
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1698 · 17th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · ItalyPompilia’s Door
In Rome, the mention of an expected letter was enough to unlatch a door. G…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Pew at Brangues
Antoine Berthet: the assault within the church before Stendhal’s novel
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Train No One Boarded
Vitalis and Marie Boyer: an inheritance, the murder of a mother, and the f…
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1908 · 20th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · GermanyGrete Beier — The Fiancée Who Foresaw Everything
To marry her lover and inherit her fiancé’s estate, Grete Beier invented a…
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1755 · 18th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Letters Had Changed Readers
Mongeot pleaded self-defense. The lovers’ correspondence reframed the murd…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceLullier: The Signature and the Cask
A forged promissory note led magistrates to a stone-sawyer in Pontoise. Co…
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1849 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Dead Women Return to the Bar
Pierre Dudragne: a theft, two deaths, and the impossible reckoning
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1526 · 16th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · ItalyThe Lovers Who Compared Their Confidences
Two rivals discover that the same woman had solicited each to murder the o…
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1779 · 18th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · EnglandThe Woman Who Was Due Home
Martha Ray leaves the playhouse. James Hackman lies in wait with two pisto…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Wind Had Turned
In Aix-en-Othe, a woman flees an abusive husband. The sanctuary she finds…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · EnglandThe Letters Maria Did Not Write
William Corder assured her family that Maria was well. For months, his let…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceWhat Aimée Desired
Aimée refused to continue a liaison. Having struck her down, Ulbach claime…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceTo Let Her Pass
Paris, 1827. Arsène Chevalier had renounced a proposed marriage; Julien pe…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FinlandThe Refuge Whose Door He Knew
Finland, 1852. Maria wishes to marry her betrothed and leave her brother-i…
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1896 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · EnglandThe Noises of Stanmore Street
Battersea, April 1896. Frederick Charles St. John was found dead in the be…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Border Crossed as Two
Paris, March 1873. Joseph-Arthur Deixonne, aged twenty-two, stood trial af…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Path to Vespers
In January 1873, eighteen-year-old Étienne Grassot murdered eighteen-year-…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Strings on the Trigger
In Le Havre, Joséphine Perrin was slain by Charles-Alexandre Brunaux follo…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Brown Greatcoat on the Banks of the Ourcq
At Lagny, in January 1872, Rosa Biziot vanished into the canal following a…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · IrelandThe Smile upon the Shannon
In Ireland in 1819, Ellen—named by the sources as either Conery or Hanley—…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceThe Nights of Cuzy
At Cuzy, in March 1877, Marie Cannet, a twenty-eight-year-old clog maker,…
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