Praha mordýřská a zlodějská
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A guide to a hundred places in Prague where, from the Middle Ages to 1989, theft, violence, murder, and suicide were rife. For a variety of motives, in a variety of ways. For money, out of jealousy, out of unhappy love, for objective and subjective reasons, reasonable and unreasonable. The book covers unknown and forgotten events as well as the most prominent cases, such as Katerina z Komarova, Otylie Vranska, Vaclav Mrazek, Olga Hepnarova, and Jiri Straka. It ranges from ancient stories, which are now more like legends or morals, to cases carefully documented in words and pictures – from literature to reality and back again. Each time, it straddles the line between "info" and "tainment," i.e., seriously researched material and an entertaining, reader-friendly presentation. The book is richly illustrated with both period sources and contemporary photographs of selected locations.
