Overview

From the files of Scotland Yard's ""Black Museum"" (open only to police officers) come true crime stories of some of the most infamous murder cases of the 19th and 20th centuries--the Lambeth Poisoner, ""baby farmer"" Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, the Gentleman Vampire of Bournemouth, the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Rillington Place murders and many others. Along the way, investigators pass a number of crime-solving milestones, included the first use of fingerprint technology, the early use of photography and the first time ""The Yard"" enlisted the press to help hunt down a killer.

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Author:   R. Michael Gordon
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9781476672540

ISBN 10:   1476672547
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   02 July 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction Section I: Scotland Yard and Its Museum of Crime History of Scotland Yard The Black Museum Section II: The 19th Century—The Victorians James Greenacre, the Dismemberment Killer of Edgware Road (1837) William Sheward and the Tabernacle Street Murder (1851) Dr. William Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner (1856) Madeleine Hamilton Smith, Arsenic “Not Proven” (1857) Constance Emily Kent and the Road Hill House Murder (1860) Dr. Edward William Pritchard, Death by Antimony (1865) Christiana Edmunds, the Chocolate Cream Poisoner (1870–1872) Mary Ann Robson (Cotton), the Dressmaking Serial Killer of Durham (1873) Kate Webster (Catherine Lawler) and Her Bloody Little Axe (1879) Charles Frederick Peace and the Banner Cross Murders (1879) Percy LeFroy Mapleton and Murder on the Brighton Line (1881) John Henry George Lee, the Man They Could Not Hang (1885) Adelaide Blanche Bartlett and the Pimlico Mystery (1886) Florence Maybrick and a Little Arsenic with Breakfast (1889) Mary Eleanor Wheeler Pearcey, a Woman Scorned (1890) Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, the Lambeth Poisoner (1891–1892) Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, the Baby Farmer Most Foul (1896) Samuel Herbert Dougal and the Moat Farm Murder (1899) Section III: The 20th Century—A New Era for Murder The Stratton Brothers and a Thumbprint to the Gallows (1905) Dr. Peter Hawley Harvey Crippen and Miss Ethel Clara Le Neve (1910) Mr. and Mrs. Seddon and the Death of Miss Barrow (1911) George Joseph Smith and the Brides in the Bath Murders (1915) The Murder of Police Constable George William Gutteridge (1927) Cecil Louis England (Toni Mancini) and the Brighton Trunk Murders (1934) Gordon Frederick Cummins, the Blackout Ripper (1942) Neville George Clevely Heath, the Gentleman Vampire of Bournemouth (1946) John George Haigh and the Acid Bath Murders (1949) John Thomas Straffen, British Serial Child Killer (1951–1952) John Reginald Halliday Christie and His Special Gas (1953) Ruth Neilson Ellis and the Public House Murder (1955) Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel, Scottish Serial Killer (1956–1958) Edwin Bush and the Antique Shop Murder (1961) Peter William Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper (1975–1980) Bibliography Index

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R. Michael Gordon is the author of several books, and has written extensively on Victorian London and the Ripper phenomenon. He lives in Long Beach, California.

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