Philippe Jaenada Returns to the Cold Case, With a New Unsolved Murder
In 'L'Inconnue du quai de Javel', the author of 'La Serpe' investigates the unsolved killing of Louise Cansot, a model favored by Montparnasse painters after the war.
Philippe Jaenada, known for turning archival digging into narrative nonfiction, has a new book out: 'L'Inconnue du quai de Javel', according to Bibliobs (Le Nouvel Obs). It follows his familiar method — reopening a real, unsolved crime and tracing it through the paper trail it left behind.
The case this time is the murder of Louise Cansot, a model cherished by painters in Montparnasse in the years after the war, whose killing was never solved, according to the same source.
Je me noie dans les centaines, les milliers de documents...
Philippe Jaenada, cité par Bibliobs
That line, given as the piece's headline, points to the working method his readers already associate with him: the author of 'La Serpe' has built a body of work out of cold cases and the mountains of paperwork — police files, letters, press clippings — that surround them. No further detail on the book's release date, publisher, or length was included in the source material available to this desk.
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