The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022, ©2021.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition
Description: 641 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
"I the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Poison was his weapon of choice. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to the medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Dr. Cream to prey on vulnerable and desperate women who had turned to him for help."--Back cover.
Series: Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Cream, Thomas Neill, 1850-1892.
Serial murders -- England -- London -- Case studies.
Serial murders -- United States -- Case studies.
Serial murders -- Canada -- Case studies.
Serial murderers -- England -- London -- Biography.
Physicians -- England -- London -- Biography.
Large type books.
Cream, Thomas Neill, 1850-1892.
Serial murders -- England -- London -- Case studies.
Serial murders -- United States -- Case studies.
Serial murders -- Canada -- Case studies.
Serial murderers -- England -- London -- Biography.
Physicians -- England -- London -- Biography.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781432896744
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-638).