The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811 - Couverture souple

James, Baroness P. D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571202829 ISBN 13 : 9780571202829

Editeur : Faber and Faber, 2000

Synopsis

In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? In this vivid and gripping reconstruction P. D. James and T. A. Critchley draw on public records, newspaper clippings and hitherto unpublished sources, expertly sifting the evidence to shed new light on this infamous Wapping mystery.

'James and Critchley evoke the horror of a dark, wintry London where ill-prepared authorities struggle to bring a major murder case to its conclusion.' Crime Times

'A model demonstration of how to assess fragmentary and often tantalising evidence . . . It makes an enthralling story.' New York Times

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and has 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 is an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has 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 has 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.She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571202829
• ISBN 13: 9780571202829
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible