THE PEEPSHOW The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

SUMMERSCALE Kate

ISBN 10: 1526660482 / ISBN 13: 9781526660480

Published by Bloomsbury, 2024. 9781526660480, 2024

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1st edn 1st printing signed by author on front endpaper. 8vo. Original black lettered cream coloured cloth, all edges red (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xviii + 296, illus with pictorial endpapers (no other inscriptions).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PEEPSHOW The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
• Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2024. 9781526660480
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526660482
• ISBN 13: 9781526660480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime

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Synopsis

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.