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Crippen
Page Modified: June 1, 2007
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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 I
SBN: 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
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