Between 1914 and 1918, Landru claimed 11 victims: 10 women plus the teenaged son of one of his victims.

It was based on the story of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered and dismembered more than 10 women during World War I.

Having murdered ten women and one boy, Landru is finally captured and placed before a court of law.

The series was so popular that co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as The Columbo Collection ( Crippen & Landru, 2010 ) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk / Columbo by Al Hirschfeld.

* The Tragedy Of Errors — Crippen & Landru, 1999 ( a previously unpublished synopsis written by Dannay, which was to be a Queen novel, plus all the previously uncollected short stories )

Henri Désiré Landru ( 12 April 1869 – 25 February 1922 ) () was a French serial killer and real-life " Bluebeard ".

Landru was born in Paris.

By 1914, Landru was estranged from his wife and working as a second-hand furniture dealer.

With no bodies, the victims were simply listed as missing, and it was virtually impossible for the police to know what had happened to them, as Landru used a wide variety of aliases in his schemes.

Initially, Landru was charged only with embezzlement.

During his trial Landru traced a picture of his kitchen, including in it the stove in which he was accused of burning his victims.

Landru was the inspiration for Charlie Chaplin's film Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ).

The 1962 film Landru, directed by Claude Chabrol, was inspired by the murders.

The murder trial of Weidmann, Million, Blanc and Tricot in Versailles in March 1939 was the biggest since that of Henri Désiré Landru, the modern-day " Bluebeard ", 18 years earlier.

A collection of his mystery short stories, Adam and Eve on a Raft, was published in 2001 by Crippen & Landru.

The script for this film, the idea for it given by Orson Welles, was inspired by the case of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru.

Reger reveals that Landru " absorbs " selected people into The Body, which was the fate of the Archons crew, and will also be the fate of the Enterprises landing party.

Five of them were collected in 2010 as Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments and Other Mysteries, published by Crippen & Landru in its " Lost Classics " series and edited by Bill Pronzini.

The only time the people " let loose " is at the striking of " The Red Hour " ( at 6: 00pm ), starting " Festival :" a period of violence, destruction and sexual aggressiveness which apparently is the only time Landru does not exercise control over them.

Landru seems to be " all-seeing " and " all-knowing " with spies everywhere, one of whom turns in the party when he does not recognize them as members of " The Body :" the telepathic collective being, symbiotic with Landru, that most of the inhabitants belong to.

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* April 12 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested.

* April 12 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* February 25 – Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.

* February 25 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( executed ) ( b. 1869 )

* Middleton is the fictional hometown of Buster Landru " Rant " Casey in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Rant.

The Adventure of the Murdered Moths ( Crippen & Landru, 2005 ) is the first book edition of the many of the radio scripts.

She bore him a daughter, although Landru did not marry her ; he married another woman two years later and had four children.

Landru began to put advertisements in the lonely hearts sections in Paris newspapers, usually along the lines of " Widower with two children, aged 43, with comfortable income, serious and moving in good society, desires to meet widow with a view to matrimony.

" With World War I under way, many men were being killed in the trenches, leaving plenty of widows upon whom Landru could prey.

Landru stood trial on 11 counts of murder in November 1921.

The 1960 film, Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons, starred George Sanders as Landru.

In the 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone entitled " The New Exhibit ", a wax figure of Landru plays an important role.

A 2005 French movie named Désiré Landru is another adaptation of this story.

Accounts in English include Dennis Barden's The Ladykiller: The Life of Landru, the French Bluebeard and William Bolitho's Murder for Profit.

The objective is for them to flirt and seduce the other, without doing or saying anything that they normally would not do or say at a first meeting.

She specifically relates her attempts to seduce Höss in an effort to persuade him that her blond, blue-eyed, German-speaking son should be allowed to leave the camp and enter the Lebensborn program, in which he would be raised as a German child.

This would cause even more strain when the new student, Foxx, joins Gambit's team and attempts to seduce him.

She has nine tails and as she desires to be a full human, she uses her beauty to seduce men and eat their hearts ( or in some cases livers where the belief is that 100 livers would turn her into a real human ).

During the Corn Festival, young Cherokee males wearing phallic-laden masks would make fun of politicians, frighten children into being good, and moreover seduce young women by shaking their masks at them and chasing them around.

This act was framed by Lord Brougham, as the champion of the middle classes, who were most strongly represented by the steam producers, and it was framed purposely with a view to seduce those into a delusive market who would have risen in their might and annihilated any government that dared thus violate their trust by the commission of wholesale plunder, had it not been for the safe retreat promised to the abandoned in the artificial market.

The greatest enemy in Orrorsh, however, was the enemy within: the realm would attempt to seduce Storm Knights to the side of Wickedness.

As Holofernes was often drunk, Judith anticipated that he would attempt to seduce her.

She hoped that Julie would seduce him away from Phoebe, but this was futile.

They will use Melancthe to seduce and distract Shimrod while Carfilhiot steals his magical apparatus, by which theft Shimrod ( relatively new to his craft ) would be so weakened as a magician that he could not retaliate.

The film drew criticism from fans of the comic because of a scene in which Hershey kisses Dredd, something which the comic version of the character would never do ( although an episode in the comic portrayed an evil Hershey from an alternative timeline attempting without success to seduce Dredd ).

She hoped Julie would seduce Cole away from Phoebe, but this was futile.

After his henchmen and a vile villain named Dirty Dee ( Reg E. Cathey ) are sent away by Pootie's friends, Lecter encourages his right-hand lady, Ireenie ( Jennifer Coolidge ), to seduce Pootie Tang into signing an agreement with LecterCorp that would stop Pootie Tang's influence on America's children.

Typical of this would be a reappraisal by Porter Anderson, theater columnist for New York's Village Voice, who conceded that Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love was " under-rated during its 1991 run at the Orpheum ", and that the play " had a grunge sensuality that could seduce a young audience to live theatre " and a " slasher plot ripped away at the exhausted cynicism of alienated Canadian youths.

The mind games climax when Logan reveals to Hannah that her father is a cocaine addict and then threatens her father with the possibility that he would seduce Hannah if he doesn't recant his testimony.

The narrative contains a large expansion on the attempts of Potiphar's wife to seduce Joseph, portraying her as first threatening Joseph, then employing torture, then flattering Joseph, then plotting to kill her husband so that Joseph would be able to marry her without bigamy, then using love potions, and finally threatening suicide.

She advises him to not to subdue the Navagraha, the nine celestial beings that govern one's destiny, and not to seduce Vedavati, who would be reborn as Sita and cause the destruction of Ravana.

The reason for the latter was that the lawmakers at that time were concerned about the welfare of heiresses, meaning their own daughters and, by extension, those of their friends and patrons ; this is why they imposed the most severe penalties on those who would seduce or abduct women without their parents ' consent even though the perpetrator intended to marry his quarry.

The character Fisheye was also changed to a woman because he would impersonate women to seduce men to obtain the Dream Mirror he and the other villains of Sailor Moon SuperS needed.