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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
Set in Edwardian London and on the
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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
Author
Publisher
Robson Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent in the underworld of that time period
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