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

    Written by Dean Jobb

    Narrated by Steven Crossley

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    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.”

    Editor's Note

    True-crime masterpiece…

    In the days of Jack the Ripper, another serial killer haunted not just London, but Canada and the US, too. In this thrilling true-crime tale, a respected doctor leads a double life, poisoning his victims in cold blood, and leaving a deadly trail on both sides of the Atlantic. Gripping and deeply researched, Publishers Weekly calls “The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream,” “a true-crime masterpiece that will easily sit alongside ‘The Devil in the White City.’”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorkman Audio
    Release dateJul 13, 2021
    ISBN9781649040398
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    The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
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    Dean Jobb

    DEAN JOBB is the author of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream, winner of the inaugural CrimeCon CLUE Award for true-crime book of the year and longlisted for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. His previous books include Empire of Deception, which the New York Times Book Review called “intoxicating and impressively researched” and was named the Chicago Writers Association’s Nonfiction Book of the Year. Jobb has written for major newspapers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, the Globe and Mail and the Irish Times, and was hailed by Esquire magazine as “a master of narrative non-fiction.” Dean Jobb is a professor in the master of fine arts in creative non-fiction program at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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    • 5/5
      The story was much more than the murders of Dr. Cream. It included other murderer, forensics at that time and the law and much more. It is interesting to hear if you want to learn more about the era in which Dr Cream lived.
    • 5/5
      Great Book! I never heard of Dr. Cream before but it's someone I won't forget now. The narrative of the book was done well. I thought it was great! Recommended!

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