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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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Case studies, History, Homicide investigation, Investigation, Mass murder, Murder, Serial murders, Moorden, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Homicide, great britain, Murder, great britain, Williams, john, 1796-1839, SociologyPeople
John Williams (d. 1811)Places
England, London, London Tower Hamlets, Ratcliffe Highway (London, England), Tower Hamlets (London, England)Times
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The maul and the pear tree: the Ratcliffe highway murders, 1811
2000, Faber and Faber
in English
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0571202829 9780571202829
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The maul and the pear tree: the Ratcliffe Highway murders, 1811
1987, Mysterious Press
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0445405627 9780445405622
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The maul and the pear tree: the Ratcliffe Highway murders 1811
1987, Mysterious Press
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The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811
1986, Mysterious Press
in English
089296152X 9780892961528
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