A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
by Angus McLaren
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/as new
- ISBN 10
- 0226560678
- ISBN 13
- 9780226560670
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About This Item
University Of Chicago Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. xv+ 217 pp. with index. Illustrations. Over the course of fifteen years, from 1877 to 1892, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women in England and North America. All seven were prostitutes seeking abortions and all fell victim to Dr. Cream's favorite weapon, strychnine. The popular press called the killings the work of one or more madmen but in fact they were the first well-documented serial murders in the English-speaking world.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E21321
- Title
- A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
- Author
- Angus McLaren
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0226560678
- ISBN 13
- 9780226560670
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- crime, true crime, murder, serial killing, serial killers, mass murder, mass murderers, victorian, doctors, poisoning, protitutes, jack the ripper
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
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