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Author Jobb, Dean, 1958- author.

Title The case of the murderous Dr. Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer / Dean Jobb.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2072309~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  364.15232 JOB    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  364.15232 JOB    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  364.15232 JOB    STAFF PICKS
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Description 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-401) and index.
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.
ISBN 9781643752501 (pbk.)
9781616206895 (hardcover)
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