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- The peepshow : the murders at Rillington Place / by Summerscale, Kate,1965-Author(DLC)nb 97051872 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index."From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy rowhouse in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they found another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. They launched a nationwide manhunt for the tenant of the ground-floor apartment, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. But they had already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place three years before, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man? The story was an instant sensation. The star reporter Harry Procter chased after the scoop on Christie. The eminent crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begged her editor to let her cover the case. To Harry and Fryn, Christie seemed a new kind of murderer: he was vacant, impersonal, a creature of a brutish postwar world. Christie liked to watch women, they discovered, and he liked to kill them. They realized that he might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice. In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie's victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime--and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century"--.- Subjects: True crime stories; Case studies; Christie, John Reginald Halliday.; Evans, Timothy John, 1924-1950.; Serial murderers; Murder victims; Murder;
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- The peepshow : the murders at Rillington Place / by Summerscale, Kate,1965-author.(CARDINAL)419245;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index.A note on money -- Preface -- PART ONE -- In the walls -- The man of a thousand doubles -- Dreams of dominance -- The washhouse -- My Sweetest Darling -- The rooms upstairs -- An unearthing -- A symbol rather than a girl -- PART TWO -- That body-ridden house -- The rope deckchair -- Gassings -- Into the fall -- PART THREE -- The back room -- A dear little baby -- With these dirty hands -- Dust and rubble -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index."From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London. In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy rowhouse in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they found another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. They launched a nationwide manhunt for the tenant of the ground-floor apartment, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. But they had already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place three years before, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man? The story was an instant sensation. The star reporter Harry Procter chased after the scoop on Christie. The eminent crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begged her editor to let her cover the case. To Harry and Fryn, Christie seemed a new kind of murderer: he was vacant, impersonal, a creature of a brutish postwar world. Christie liked to watch women, they discovered, and he liked to kill them. They realized that he might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice. In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie's victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime--and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century"--- Subjects: True crime stories.; Case studies.; Christie, John Reginald Halliday.; Evans, Timothy John, 1924-1950.; Serial murderers; Murder; Murder victims;
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- Rillington Place / by Roth, Tim,actor.; Mirallegro, Nico,1991-actor.; Morton, Samantha,actor.; Comer, Jodie,1993-actor.; BBC Studios,publisher.production company.;
Tim Roth, Nico Milrallegro, Samantha Morton, Jodie Comer, Gilly Gilchrist, Eiry Thomas, Christopher Hatherall, Tim Bentinck, Sonya Cassidy.Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at Ten Rillington Place revealed that his neighbor, star prosecution witness John Reginald Christie knew much more about the sinister goings on in the house. Set in the dark confines of Christie's home, the powerful drama imagines the relationships between them all.DVD, region 1, NTSC, wide screen (16x9); Dolby digital stereo.- Subjects: Drama.; DVD-Video discs.; Television mini-series.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Biographical television programs.; Detective television programs.; Mystery television programs.; Christie, John Reginald Halliday; Evans, Timothy John, 1924-1950; 10 Rillington Place (London, England); Trials (Murder); Serial murder investigation;
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- Death in the air : the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city / by Dawson, Kate Winkler,author.(CARDINAL)350841;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index.Pressure -- Blackout -- Restrained -- Trapped -- Bodies in the mist -- Postmortem -- Smothered -- Hearth and home -- Squeezed -- Buried -- Illumination -- Infamous -- Legacy -- Epilogue.In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a braided narrative that draws on extensive interviews, never-before-published material, and archival research, Dawson captivatingly recounts the intersecting stories of the these two killers and their longstanding impact on modern history.- Subjects: True crime stories.; Case studies.; Christie, John Reginald Halliday.; Serial murderers; Smog;
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