The Wicked Boy
The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
(Sprache: Englisch)
The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
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The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
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Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family in Liverpool. Over the next ten days Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their parents' valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. But as the sun beat down on the Coombes house, a strange smell began to emanate from the building.
When the police were finally called to investigate, the discovery they made sent the press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a criminal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the 'penny dreadful' novels that Robert loved to read.
In The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinatingtrue story of murder and morality - it is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case, but also a compelling account of its aftermath, and of man's capacity to overcome the past.
Autoren-Porträt von Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale, geboren 1965, wurde in England bekannt durch ihr Buch The Queen of Whale Cay (deutsch: Kerle wie wir), das ein Nr. 1-Times-Bestseller war und den Somerset Maugham Award gewann. Sie lebt mit ihrem Sohn in London.
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- Autor: Kate Summerscale
- 2016, 400 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 13,6 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408851156
- ISBN-13: 9781408851159
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.05.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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