The case of the murderous Dr. Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer / Dean Jobb.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616206895
- ISBN: 1616206896
- Physical Description: 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-401) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue: ghosts -- "The first of criminals." "A great sin-stricken city" ; "Detective-fever" ; Ellen Donworth ; Matilda Clover ; "A human 'were-wolf'" -- The Lambeth poisoner. Louisa Harvey ; Blackmail ; "A bad man with no refinement" ; Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivell ; Bitter medicine ; "A strange customer" ; The suspect ; "You have got the wrong man" -- The trusted hand. Jarvis of the yard ; "A young man of rare ability" ; "The animal spirits within" ; Flora Eliza Brooks ; Student no. 2016 ; A premature death ; The licentiate ; Catharine Hutchinson Gardner ; By some person unknown -- Inquest. Missing links ; Resurrection -- Crimes and punishment. Mary Anne Matilda Faulkner ; "Pure cream" ; Ellen Stack and Sarah Alice Montgomery ; A despicable scheme ; Daniel Stott ; "Crooked Cream" ; Inmate no. 4374 ; "As innocent as the child unborn" ; Chasing shadows -- "Jack the poisoner." "A systematic and deliberate course of action" ; "A murder so diabolical" ; "Insane in no legal sense" ; Dead man's walk ; "I am Jack" -- Epilogue: "an Elizabethan tragedy of horrors" -- Cast of characters.
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- Subject:
- Cream, Thomas Neill, 1850-1892.
Serial murders > England > London > Case studies.
Serial murders > United States > Case studies.
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Available copies
- 46 of 48 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 48 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 364.152 JOB (Text) | 37810435777676 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | 364.152 J (Text) | 39493110032531 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | 364.152 JOB (Text) | 40599001127664 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Anderson Creek Public Library | 364.152 Job (Text) | 33630005094243 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | B CREAM (Text) | 80605003600714 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | 364.152 JOBB (Text) | 34208900080911 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Black Mountain Library | 364.15232092 JOB (Text) | 0020512960889 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bogue Banks | LAW&CRIM TRUECRIM JOBB (Text) | 34208900084269 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bordeaux Library | B CREAM (Text) | 31781065804567 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/21/2026 |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | 364.152 JOB (Text) | 37807000030222 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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"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"--
