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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

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11/100

Critics

77/100

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N/A

Author:

Dean Jobb

Publisher:

Algonquin Books

Date:

July 13, 2021

The author of Empire of Deception returns with a true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, a doctor whose air of authority enabled his poisoning spree in the U.S., Canada and England. Dr. Cream's crimes 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.

What The Reviewers Say

W.M Akers,
The New York Times Book Review
... excellent.
Mark Sanderson,
The Times (UK)
... fascinating.
Ho Lin,
Foreword Reviews
... engrossing.
Tom Nolan,
The Wall Street Journal
... deeply absorbing.

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