Maul and the Pear Tree

The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811

AvP. D. James

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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During the dark nights of December 1811 near Wapping in London's East End, two households, including a young mother and her baby, were brutally clubbed to death. These vicious crimes provoked nationwide panic and the Government offered an unprecedented reward for the conviction of the murderer. Inexperienced magistrates grappled with the mystery, against a background of mounting hysteria. Eventually a seaman named John Williams was arrested for the murders, and later found buried with a stake through his heart. But was he really the notorious East End killer, or just another victim?Drawing on public records, newspaper clippings and previously unpublished sources, James and Critchley expertly sift the evidence to shed new light on this infamous mystery.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-02
Mått:129 x 198 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Faber & Faber
ISBN:9780571355730

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P.D. James (1920-2014) was born in Oxford and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, stepping down from the post in August 2013.