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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The case of the murderous Dr. Cream

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

1260104446

Responsibility statement

Dean Jobb

Sub title

the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer

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

Table Of Contents

Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note to Readers -- Prologue: Ghosts -- I. "The First of Criminals" -- 1. "A Great Sin-Stricken City" -- 2. "Detective-Fever" -- 3. Ellen Donworth -- 4. Matilda Clover -- 5. "A Human 'Were-Wolf'" -- II. The Lambeth Poisoner -- 6. Louisa Harvey -- 7. Blackmail -- 8. "A Bad Man with No Refinement" -- 9. Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivell -- 10. Bitter Medicine -- 11. "A Strange Customer" -- 12. The Suspect -- 13. "You Have Got the Wrong Man" -- III. The Trusted Hand -- 14. Jarvis of the Yard -- 15. "A Young Man of Rare Ability"16. "The Animal Spirits Within" -- 17. Flora Eliza Brooks -- 18. Student No. 2016 -- 19. A Premature Death -- 20. The Licentiate -- 21. Catharine Hutchinson Gardner -- 22. By Some Person Unknown -- IV. Inquest -- 23. Missing Links -- 24. Resurrection -- V. Crimes and Punishment -- 25. Mary Anne Matilda Faulkner -- 26. "Pure Cream" -- 27. Ellen Stack and Sarah Alice Montgomery -- 28. A Despicable Scheme -- 29. Daniel Stott -- 30. "Crooked Cream" -- 31. Inmate No. 4374 -- 32. "As Innocent as the Child Unborn" -- 33. Chasing Shadows -- VI. "Jack the Poisoner"34. "A Systematic and Deliberate Course of Action" -- 35. "A Murder So Diabolical" -- 36. "Insane in No Legal Sense" -- 37. Dead Man's Walk -- 38. "I Am Jack . . ." -- Epilogue: "An Elizabethan Tragedy of Horrors" -- Cast of Characters -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Index -- Also by Dean Jobb -- About the Author -- Copyright

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Case of the murderous Doctor Cream

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