Society's
river investigation
into the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès affair, published this summer in two issues of the magazine sold in hundreds of thousands of copies, has been compiled in a book that will be published on December 9, we have learned Wednesday.
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This work called
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, the survey
, which will appear by So Lonely and Marabout, according to a press release from these publishing houses, brings together in 192 pages the two parts of this thrilling text, presented as the most detailed account of this unusual incident, the result of four years of investigations.
Signed Pierre Boisson, Maxime Chamoux, Sylvain Gouverneur and Thibault Raisse, the survey was initially published on July 23 and August 6 in Society, meeting with public enthusiasm
"close to madness"
, in the words of Frank Annese, the boss of Sopress, publisher of the magazine.
The two issues had snapped up on newsstands and sold around 400,000 copies in all, captivating crowds of readers on the beaches of France and elsewhere.
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, suspected of having killed his wife and four children in Nantes in April 2011, has never been found, giving rise to numerous hypotheses as to whether he is dead or a fugitive.
In October 2019, the announcement of his false arrest had caused a lot of noise but it was a French pensioner of Portuguese origin.