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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

By: Dean Jobb
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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 “A tour de force of storytelling.” —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series

“Jobb’s excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read.” —The New York Times Book Review

”When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. “He has nerve and he has knowledge.” In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedent. Poison was his weapon of choice. Largely forgotten today, this villain was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper.

Structured around the doctor’s London murder trial in 1892, when he was finally brought to justice, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Dr. Cream to prey on vulnerable and desperate women, many of whom had turned to him for medical help.

Dean Jobb transports readers to the late nineteenth century as Scotland Yard traces Dr. Cream’s life through Canada and Chicago and finally to London, where new investigative tools called forensics were just coming into use, even as most police departments still scoffed at using science to solve crimes. But then, most investigators could hardly imagine that serial killers existed—the term was unknown. As the Chicago Tribune wrote, Dr. Cream’s crimes marked the emergence of a new breed of killer: one who operated without motive or remorse, who “murdered simply for the sake of murder.” For fans of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, all things Sherlock Holmes, or the podcast My Favorite Murder, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream is an unforgettable true crime story from a master of the genre. Crime Europe Great Britain Murder True Crime Chicago Detective England Sherlock Holmes
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I was hooked from start to finish and the narrator is brilliant and it's a really good book, which translates well into audio. Highly recommend.

great audiobook

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Very interesting book, full of facts on the case and Victorian justice system in general. The author has obviously done a lot of research. Unfortunately the narrator sounds like a news reader and has a funny way of ending sentences which makes it an overall slightly annoying listen.

Interesting story full of facts on Victorian life

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The book seems well researched and well written, but I find the inflections of the narrator too positive for the subject matter. It makes the listening difficult.

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