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Sometimes the Truth is Scarier than Fiction
True Crime
True Crime Books Worth Checking Out (WPL-ADULT)
Sometimes the Truth is Scarier than Fiction
True Crime
True Crime Books Worth Checking Out (WPL-ADULT)
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Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, Jobb provides a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers. Dr. Thomas Neil Cream used poison on vulnerable and desperate women, many who had turned to him for medical help. Cream's 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. --...
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"It's either a genuine confession by Jack the Ripper, or it's an extraordinary novel...Only you can decide."—Paul Begg, author of Jack the Ripper: The Definitive HistoryIn the Whitechapel neighborhood of London in 1888, five women were horribly mutilated and murdered by the infamous killer, Jack the Ripper. Though there were many suspects, the monster was never caught.This recently discovered memoir from the 1920s introduces a new suspect: James...
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"Prawdziwa historia wielkiej pogoni przez ocean, którą śledziły miliony czytelnik̤w gazet na całym świecie latem 1910 roku. Porywająca opowieść o jednym z największych w historii pościgów policyjnych, który zakończył się sukcesem tylko dzięki wynalezionej przez Guglielmo Marconiego telegrafii bezprzewodowej. Rok 1910. Guglielmo Marconi � włoski fizyk, konstruktor i laureat Nagrody Nobla � jest bez reszty opanowany obsesją stworzenia...