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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jobb, Dean, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cream, Thomas Neill, 1850-1892.

Cream, Thomas Neill.

Serial murders--England--London--Case studies.

Serial murders.

Serial murders--United States--Case studies.

Physicians.

Serial murderers.

United States.

England--London.

Canada.

Serial murders--Canada--Case studies.

Serial murderers--England--London--Biography.

Physicians--England--London--Biography.

Genre:

Case studies.

Biographies.

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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 ...".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-401) and index.

ISBN:

9781616206895

1616206896

OCLC:

1159043120