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Author:

Jobb, Dean, 1958- author.

Title:

The case of the murderous Dr. Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer / Dean Jobb.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Cream, Thomas Neill,--1850-1892.
Serial murders--London--London--Case studies.
Serial murders--United States--Case studies.
Serial murders--Canada--Case studies.
Serial murderers--London--London--Biography.
Physicians--London--London--Biography.
Case studies.
True crime stories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-401) and index.

Contents:

The first of criminals -- The Lambeth poisoner -- The trusted hand -- Inquest -- Crimes and punishment -- Jack the Poisoner -- Epilogue: An Elizabethan tragedy.

Summary:

"Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose 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 such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels"-- provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1616206896
9781616206895

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1159043120

LCCN:

2021002158

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