Get Excited because the Paperback version of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb has just entered the world. I received a free copy for honest review from the publisher. I covered this book last year, and you can check that post out here!
Thanks so much to Algonquin Books for letting me be a part of the Paperback Release!
Author: Dean Jobb
Published by: Algonquin Books
Released: July 5, 2022
Source: Review Copy Provided by Publisher
Synopsis: “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 people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a
death toll with almost no precedents. Structured around Cream’s London
murder trial in 1892, 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.” (Synopsis from Goodreads)
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