{"product_id":"the-typewriter-and-the-guillotine-mark-braude-9781538767115","title":"The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe thrilling untold story of the trailblazing writer Janet Flanner, Paris correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on the eve of WWII.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 1925, the Indianapolis-born Janet Flanner took an assignment to write a regular 'Letter from Paris' for a lighthearted humor magazine called \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003estarted by some friends in New York.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShe'd come to Paris to with dreams of writing about \"Beauty with a Capital B.\" Her employer, self-consciously apolitical, sought only breezy reports on French art and culture. But as she woke to the frightening signs of rising extremism, economic turmoil, and widespread discontent in Europe, Flanner ignored her editor's directives, reinventing herself, her assignment, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in the process. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e While working tirelessly to alert American readers to the dangers of the Third Reich, including producing one of the first detailed profiles of Hitler in an American publication, Flanner became gripped by the disturbing crimes of a man who embodied all of the darkness she was being forced to confront. Eugen Weidmann, a German con-man who killed six people in and around Paris in the late 1930s, and who was last man to be publicly executed in France--mere weeks before the outbreak of WWII. Flanner covered his crimes, capture, and highly politicized trial, seeing the case as a guiding metaphor through which to understand the tumultuous years through which she'd just passed and to prepare herself for the dangers to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Typewriter and The Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eoffers the personal and professional coming-of-age story of an indomitable journalist set against a glamorous, high-stakes backdrop - a tightly-coiled drama full of romance and intrigue. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Braude\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1538767112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781538767115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.25w x 1.33d","brand":"Mark Braude","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001060540671,"sku":"9781538767115","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7371e835-9936-463d-a410-c13f672dbb78.jpg?v=1751599946","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-typewriter-and-the-guillotine-mark-braude-9781538767115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}