Death in the air the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city
In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the street...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Dawson, Kate Winkler, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Death in the air : |b the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city / |c Kate Winkler Dawson. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Hachette Books, |c 2017. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2017 | |
| 300 | |a viii, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-333) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue -- Pressure -- Blackout -- Restrained -- Trapped -- Bodies in the mist -- Postmortem -- Smothered -- Hearth and home -- Squeezed -- Buried -- Illumination -- Infamous -- Legacy -- Epilogue. | |
| 520 | |a In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a braided narrative that draws on extensive interviews, never-before-published material, and archival research, Dawson captivatingly recounts the intersecting stories of the these two killers and their longstanding impact on modern history. | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a London (England) |x Social conditions |y 20th century. | |
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