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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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Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
2021, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
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La octava víctima
Jun 06, 2019, B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B)
mass market paperback
in Spanish
8490709270 9788490709276
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Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
2011, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
0571288618 9780571288618
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Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
2010, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
0571258085 9780571258086
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Die Morde am Ratcliffe Highway
March 1, 2003, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., GmbH & Co.
Paperback
in German
3426619822 9783426619827
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The maul and the pear tree: the Ratcliffe highway murders, 1811
2000, Faber and Faber
in English
- New ed.
0571202829 9780571202829
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The maul and the pear tree
1996, Warner Books
in English
- Warner Books ed.
0445405627 9780445405622
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Les meurtres de la Tamise: une enquête historico-policière
1994, Fayard
in French
225313905X 9782253139058
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The Maul and the Pear Tree: Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811
1990, Penguin Books Ltd
Paperback
0140131868 9780140131864
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The Maul and the Pear Tree: Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811
1990, Penguin Books Ltd
0140131868 9780140131864
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The Maul and the Pear Tree
March 1990, Mysterious Press
Paperback
- Reissue edition
9992925949 9789992925942
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Maul and the Pear Tree
January 13, 1989, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover
in English
0517680416 9780517680414
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The maul and the Pear Tree: the Ratcliffe Highway murders, 1811
1988, Chivers
in English
0745171125 9780745171128
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The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
February 1988, MacMillan Publishing Company
Hardcover
in English
- Largeprint edition
0816142769 9780816142767
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The maul and the pear tree: the Ratcliffe Highway murders, 1811
1987, G.K. Hall
in English
0816142769 9780816142767
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The maul and the pear tree: the Ratcliffe Highway murders, 1811
1987, Mysterious Press
- 1st Mysterious Press paperback ed.
0445405627 9780445405622
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The maul and the pear tree: the Ratcliffe Highway murders 1811
1987, Mysterious Press
in English
0445405627 9780445405622
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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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The maul and the pear tree: the Ratcliffe Highway murders, 1811
1986, Mysterious Press
in English
089296152X 9780892961528
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The maul and The Pear Tree: the Ratcliffe Highway murders, 1811
1971, Constable
in English
0094580200 9780094580206
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