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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream Dean Jobb

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream By Dean Jobb

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb


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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream Summary

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream takes readers to the late nineteenth century as Scotland Yard follows the trail of a cold-blooded serial killer who was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper and who would finally be brought to justice by detectives employing a new science called forensics. When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals, Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. He has nerve and he has knowledge. In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream poisoned at least ten women in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedents. Structured around Cream's London murder trial in 1891, when he was finally brought to justice, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Cream to prey on vulnerable and desperate women, many of whom had turned to him for medical help. Dean Jobb vividly re-creates this largely forgotten historical account against the backdrop of the birth of modern policing and newly adopted forensic methods, though most police departments still scoffed at using science to solve crimes. But then most police departments could hardly imagine that serial killers existed - the term was unknown at the time. As the Chicago Tribune wrote then, Cream's crimes marked the emergence of a new breed of killer, one who operated without motive or remorse, who murdered simply for the sake of murder.

About Dean Jobb

Dean Jobb is an award-winning author and journalist and a professor at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the graduate Creative Nonfiction and Journalism programs. He is the author of six previous books, including Empire of Deception, called intoxicating and impressive by The New York Times Book Review. Jobb has written for major American and Canadian newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune, the American Journalism Review, Toronto's Globe and Mail, and his monthly true-crime column, Stranger Than Fiction, appears in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. His work as an investigative reporter has been nominated for Canada's National Newspaper and National Magazine awards and Jobb is a three-time winner of Atlantic Canada's top journalism award. His website is www.deanjobb.com.

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GOR012041720
9781616206895
1616206896
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
20210802
432
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