The Peepshow
The thrilling new page-turner from Britain’s top-selling true crime writer
Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Circus (Verlag)
978-1-5266-6048-0 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Circus (Verlag)
978-1-5266-6048-0 (ISBN)
The UK's top-selling true crime writer and author of the #1 bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher takes on the notorious murders at 10 Rillington Place
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER AND THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman
‘Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime’ Val McDermid
'I really, really loved it. It's written so beautifully and it really makes you feel like you're in the 1950s' Richard Osman
‘Every bit the gripping, page-turning treat’ Mark Bostridge, Spectator
London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ago, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?
A nationwide manhunt is launched for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. Star reporter Harry Procter chases after the scoop. Celebrated crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begs to be assigned to the case. The story becomes an instant sensation, and with the relentless rise of the tabloid press the public watches on like never before. Who is Christie? Why did he choose to kill women, and to keep their bodies near him? As Harry and Fryn start to learn the full horror of what went on at Rillington Place, they realise that Christie might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice in plain sight.
In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie’s victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER AND THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman
‘Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime’ Val McDermid
'I really, really loved it. It's written so beautifully and it really makes you feel like you're in the 1950s' Richard Osman
‘Every bit the gripping, page-turning treat’ Mark Bostridge, Spectator
London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ago, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?
A nationwide manhunt is launched for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. Star reporter Harry Procter chases after the scoop. Celebrated crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begs to be assigned to the case. The story becomes an instant sensation, and with the relentless rise of the tabloid press the public watches on like never before. Who is Christie? Why did he choose to kill women, and to keep their bodies near him? As Harry and Fryn start to learn the full horror of what went on at Rillington Place, they realise that Christie might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice in plain sight.
In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie’s victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house.
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and was adapted into a major ITV drama. Her other books include The Haunting of Alma Fielding, The Wicked Boy, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace and The Queen of Whale Cay (inspired by an obituary she wrote for the Daily Telegraph). She has judged several literary prizes, including the Booker Prize, and in 2010 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5266-6048-2 / 1526660482 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5266-6048-0 / 9781526660480 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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