SR-611 Parisian Passions

FOREWORD

PHANTOM DECOY…

Lorraine was quite unlike anyone Jacques had ever come in contact with. He did not know just how different, however, until he tried to bring her to the ravages of the dope ring, under threat of horrible consequences. Then he learned about when a girl is not a girl…

… STRANGE JUSTICE!

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PHANTOM

… was the name they had given to the murderer. Never since the horrors of the days of Jack The Ripper had a city been so terrorized as was Paris, by this latter-day strangler of female performers. To quote Howard Jones, in Crime in a Changing Society: “There are many ways of Expressing intense hostility, but one way is through violent crime. This may consist of the wanton destruction of property, of assault, or even murder. Some psychoanalysts are now raising the question of whether, especially in the case of crimes against the person, like sexual assault and violence, the victim may not be as responsible for the offense as the person who perpetrates it. The crime, in other words, may be invited by the victim because it satisfies some unconscious wish in him. There is plenty of evidence of such symbiotic patterns… Are not existing aggressions, the demand for material compensations, the inability to tolerate frustration, going to be greatly augmented (by an unstable nature), leading to an increase in behavior which the rest of the community calls delinquency?” Sheriff Buck Rhodes and the Sureté’s Inspector Henri Goulet didn’t call it “delinquency”. They called it murder…