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The case of the murderous Dr. Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer / Dean Jobb.
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- ISBN: 9781616206895 :
- ISBN: 1616206896 :
- Physical Description: 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-401) and index. |
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| Subject: | Cream, Thomas Neill, 1850-1892. Serial murders > England > London > Case studies. Serial murders > United States > Case studies. Serial murders > Canada > Case studies. Serial murderers > England > London > Biography. Physicians > England > London > Biography. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Pease Public Library | 364.1523 JOBB
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream : The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
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Table of Contents
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream : The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| A Note to Readers | p. xiii | |
| Prologue: Ghosts | p. 1 | |
| I | "The First of Criminals" | |
| 1 | "A Great Sin-Stricken City" | p. 11 |
| 2 | "Detective-Fever" | p. 20 |
| 3 | Ellen Donworth | p. 28 |
| 4 | Matilda Clover | p. 33 |
| 5 | "A Human 'Were-Wolf | p. 39 |
| II | The Lambeth Poisoner | |
| 6 | Louisa Harvey | p. 47 |
| 17 | Blackmail | p. 51 |
| 8 | "A Bad Man with No Refinement" | p. 59 |
| 9 | Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivel! | p. 66 |
| 10 | Bitter Medicine | p. 71 |
| 11 | "A Strange Customer" | p. 83 |
| 12 | The Suspect | p. 91 |
| 13 | "You Have Got the Wrong Man" | p. 98 |
| III | The Trusted Hand | |
| 14 | Jarvis of the Yard | p. 105 |
| 15 | "A Young Man of Rare Ability" | p. 109 |
| 16 | "The Animal Spirits Within" | p. 119 |
| 17 | Flora Eliza Brooks | p. 130 |
| 18 | Student No. 2016 | p. 136 |
| 19 | A Premature Death | p. 143 |
| 20 | The Licentiate | p. 147 |
| 21 | Catharine Hutchinson Gardner | p. 152 |
| 22 | By Some Person Unknown | p. 161 |
| IV | Inquest | |
| 23 | Missing Links | p. 171 |
| 24 | Resurrection | p. 183 |
| V | Crimes and Punishment | |
| 25 | Mary Anne Matilda Faulkner | p. 193 |
| 26 | "Pure Cream" | p. 206 |
| 27 | Ellen Stack and Sarah Alice Montgomery | p. 213 |
| 28 | A Despicable Scheme | p. 223 |
| 29 | Daniel Stott | p. 226 |
| 30 | "Crooked Cream" | p. 235 |
| 31 | Inmate No. 4374 | p. 244 |
| 32 | "As Innocent as the Child Unborn" | p. 257 |
| 33 | Chasing Shadows | p. 265 |
| VI | "Jack the Poisoner" | |
| 34 | "A Systematic and Deliberate Course of Action" | p. 273 |
| 35 | "A Murder So Diabolical" | p. 286 |
| 36 | "Insane in No Legal Sense" | p. 290 |
| 37 | Dead Man's Walk | p. 301 |
| 38 | "I Am Jack..." | p. 305 |
| Epilogue: An Elizabethan Tragedy of Horrors" | p. 312 | |
| Cast of Characters | p. 323 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 329 | |
| Sources | p. 333 | |
| Index | p. 403 |
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