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The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811

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The Maul and the Pear Tree

The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811

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In this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian T. A. Critchley to re-create the Radcliffe Highway murders, a series of vicious crimes committed in 1811 ... The scene is the London Docks near Wapping Old Stairs, a sinister neighborhood where pirates were often hanged. The first victims were two hardworking shopkeepers, along with their baby and shop boy. Twelve days later and only a few blocks away, an equally blameless pub owner was found together with his wife and servant, victims of equal cruelty and apparent absence of motive. The serial killings provoked nationwide notoriety and panic. With the atmosphere and pacing of her best novels, James reveals the rudimentary police system of Regency London coping with a major murder investigation -- and crimes that rank up there with Jack the Ripper, the Boston Strangler, and Son of Sam as the very symbol of murderous and unthinking brutality.

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Mysterious Press
Language
English
Pages
234

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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [229]-230.
Authors' names appeared in reverse order on previous edition.
Reprint. Originally published: London : Constable, c1971.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1/523/094215
Library of Congress
HV6535.G6 L634 1986, HV6535.G6L634 1986

The Physical Object

Pagination
234 p., [6] p. of plates :
Number of pages
234

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2551137M
Internet Archive
maulpeartreeratc0000jame_n7q1
ISBN 10
089296152X
LCCN
85043163
OCLC/WorldCat
13011130
Library Thing
316490
Goodreads
1074266

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