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03257aam a2200481 i 4500 001 D32C3E40AC0011ECB0E0A66040ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220325010007 007 tb 008 211118t20222021meuab d 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2021950987 020 $a 1432896741 020 $a 9781432896744 035 $a (OCoLC)1295461404 040 $a NOQ $b eng $e rda $c NOQ $d ZPT $d HHO $d IOU $d SILO 082 00 $a 364.152/32092 $2 23 100 1 $a Jobb, Dean, $d 1958- $e author. 245 14 $a The case of the murderous Dr. Cream : $b the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer / $c Dean Jobb. 250 $a Large print edition 264 1 $a Waterville, ME : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 641 pages (large print) : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 22 cm 340 $n large print $2 rda 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-638) and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: ghosts -- "The first of criminals." "A great sin-stricken city" ; "Detective-fever" ; Ellen Donworth ; Matilda Clover ; "A human 'were-wolf'" -- The Lambeth poisoner. Louisa Harvey ; Blackmail ; "A bad man with no refinement" ; Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivell ; Bitter medicine ; "A strange customer" ; The suspect ; "You have got the wrong man" -- The trusted hand. Jarvis of the yard ; "A young man of rare ability" ; "The animal spirits within" ; Flora Eliza Brooks ; Student no. 2016 ; A premature death ; The licentiate ; Catharine Hutchinson Gardner ; By some person unknown -- Inquest. Missing links ; Resurrection -- Crimes and punishment. Mary Anne Matilda Faulkner ; "Pure cream" ; Ellen Stack and Sarah Alice Montgomery ; A despicable scheme ; Daniel Stott ; "Crooked Cream" ; Inmate no. 4374 ; "As innocent as the child unborn" ; Chasing shadows -- "Jack the poisoner." "A systematic and deliberate course of action" ; "A murder so diabolical" ; "Insane in no legal sense" ; Dead man's walk ; "I am Jack" -- Epilogue: "an Elizabethan tragedy of horrors" -- Cast of characters. 520 $a Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, Jobb provides a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers. Dr. Thomas Neil Cream used poison on vulnerable and desperate women, many who had turned to him for medical help. Cream's poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction. -- adapted from jacket 600 10 $a Cream, Thomas Neill, $d 1850-1892. 650 0 $a Serial murders $z London $z London $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Serial murders $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Serial murders $z Canada $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Serial murderers $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 0 $a Physicians $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Creative nonfiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031857.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220802011227.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220325010037.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D32C3E40AC0011ECB0E0A66040ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search