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Books about the Edwardian Age

 

Fiction

• Crippen
  Author: Boyne, John
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312343582 Date: 2006
  PW LJ
  This beautifully drawn novel re-creates the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers. "Genuinely thrilling . . . "--"Sunday Tribune" (UK).
  Suggested Reading: Historical Crime Fiction | Biographical Fiction
  Updated 1.31.06
• The False Inspector Dew
  Author: Lovesy, Peter Date: 1982
  The year is 1921. A passionate affair between a romantic woman and her dentist has led to his wife's murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious Dr. Crippen. But, in a disquieting twist, when a murder occurs aboard ship the captain invites "Inspector Dew" to nvestigate. This may be Lovesey's most ingeniously plotted mystery for which he was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger.
  Updated 10.16.06

Nonfiction

• Thunderstruck
  Author: Larson, Erik
  Publisher: Crown $ 25.95 ISBN: 1400080665 Date: 2006
  LJ Booklist PW
  The bestselling author of The Devil in the White City tells the amazing, interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a doctor and an unlikely murderer, and Gugliemo Marconi, the obsessive genius who invented the wireless--whose stories converge during the greatest criminal chase of all time.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | True Crime
  Updated 8.10.06