TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jobb,Dean
TI  - The case of the murderous Dr. Cream: the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer 
SN  - 9781616206895
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - Cream, Thomas Neill,
KW  - Serial murders
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Case studies
KW  - United States
KW  - Canada
KW  - Serial murderers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Physicians
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-401) and index; 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
N2  - "Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels"--; Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, Jobb provides a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers. Dr. Thomas Neil Cream used poison on vulnerable and desperate women, many who had turned to him for medical help. Cream's poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction. -- adapted from jacket
ER  -