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The case of the murderous Dr. Cream the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer

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"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...

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Main Author: Jobb, Dean, 1958- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Cream, Thomas Neill, > 1850-1892.
Serial murders > England > London > Case studies.
Serial murders > United States > Case studies.
Serial murders > Canada > Case studies.
Serial murderers > England > London > Biography.
Physicians > England > London > Biography.
True crime stories.
Case studies.
Biographies.
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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"--
Physical Description:xiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-401).
ISBN:9781616206895
1616206896
Author Notes:Dean Jobb is an award-winning author and journalist and a professor at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. He is the author of eight previous books, including Empire of Deception , which the New York Times Book Review called "intoxicating and impressively researched" and the Chicago Writers Association named the Nonfiction Book of the Year. Jobb has written for major newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune , Toronto's Globe and Mail , and the Irish Times . He writes a monthly true-crime column, "Stranger Than Fiction," for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . His work as an investigative reporter has been nominated for Canada's National Newspaper and National Magazine awards, and Jobb is a three-time winner of Atlantic Canada's top journalism award.


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