Kate Summerscale: The Peepshow | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781526660503 | The Peepshow | The Murders at 10 Rillington Place | Kate Summerscale

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Beschreibung

In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they found another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. They launched a nationwide manhunt for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman called Reg Christie.

The story was an instant sensation. The star reporter Harry Procter chased after the scoop on Christie. The eminent crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begged her editor to let her cover the case. To Harry and Fryn, Christie seemed a new kind of murderer: he was vacant, impersonal, a creature of a brutish post-war world. Christie liked to watch women, they discovered, and he liked to kill them. They realised that he might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice. On Christie's evidence, another man had hanged three years earlier for a double murder in 10 Rillington Place.

In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie's victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime, and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century.

Über den Autor

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and was adapted into a major ITV drama. Her other books include The Haunting of Alma Fielding, The Wicked Boy, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace and The Queen of Whale Cay (inspired by an obituary she wrote for the Daily Telegraph). She has judged several literary prizes, including the Booker Prize, and in 2010 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781526660503
ISBN-10:	1526660504
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Summerscale, Kate
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury UK Bloomsbury Circus
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	149 x 230 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Kate Summerscale
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.10.2024
Gewicht:	0,396 kg

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