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Barcode37821002431696
LocationMarshall District
TitleThe case of the murderous Dr. Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer / Dean Jobb.
AuthorJobb, Dean, 1958- author.
Call No364.152 JOB
CollectionAdult 300

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International Standard Book Number 9781616206895
International Standard Book Number 1616206896
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 364.15232092
Personal Name Jobb, Dean, 1958- author.
Title Statement The case of the murderous Dr. Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer / Dean Jobb.
Varying Form of Title Case of the murderous Doctor Cream.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint ©2021.
Imprint Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]
Physical Description 416 pages ; illustrations, maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note 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.
Summary, Etc. "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.
Subject-Personal Name Cream, Thomas Neill, 1850-1892.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Serial murders Canada Case studies.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Serial murders England London Case studies.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Serial murders United States Case studies.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Physicians England Biography.
Index Term-Genre/Form True crime stories.