Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 1: Desrues

Author(s): Alexandre Dumas, George Burnham Ives

Genre(s): True Crime

Narrators: John Van Stan

Number of Chapters: 7

Length: 04 hours and 24 minutes

Language: English

This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called "Derues") from his childhood to his execution. Desrues constructed the veneer of a virtuous reputation that hid his ever-increasing deviancy from society. Eventually, his lust for fame and fortune (especially the latter) crumbled his virtuous veneer, revealing the startling extent of his crimes, and condemning him to justice by the executioner's hand. - Summary by jvanstan