The Peepshow
The Murders at Rillington Place
(Sprache: Englisch)
In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they found another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones...
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In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they found another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. They launched a nationwide manhunt for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman called Reg Christie.The story was an instant sensation. The star reporter Harry Procter chased after the scoop on Christie. The eminent crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begged her editor to let her cover the case. To Harry and Fryn, Christie seemed a new kind of murderer: he was vacant, impersonal, a creature of a brutish post-war world. Christie liked to watch women, they discovered, and he liked to kill them. They realised that he might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice. On Christie's evidence, another man had hanged three years earlier for a double murder in 10 Rillington Place.
In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie's victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime, and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century.
Autoren-Porträt von Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama starring Peter Capaldi and Olivia Colman. Her other books include The Queen of Whale Clay (inspired by an obituary she wrote for the Daily Telegraph), Mrs Robinson's Disgrace and The Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has judged several literary prizes, including the Booker Prize, and in 2010 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kate Summerscale
- 2024, 352 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 1526660504
- ISBN-13: 9781526660503
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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