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"Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels"--

 

Table of Contents

A Note to Readers xiii

Prologue: Ghosts 1 (10)

I "THE FIRST OF CRIMINALS"

1 "A Great Sin-Stricken City"

11 (9)

2 "Detective-Fever"

20 (8)

3 Ellen Donworth

28 (5)

4 Matilda Clover

33 (6)

5 "A Human `Were-Wolf'"

39 (8)

II THE LAMBETH POISONER

6 Louisa Harvey

47 (4)

7 Blackmail

51 (8)

8 "A Bad Man With No Refinement"

59 (7)

9 Alice Marsh And Emma Shrivell

66 (5)

10 Bitter Medicine

71 (12)

11 "A Strange Customer"

83 (8)

12 The Suspect

91 (7)

13 "You Have Got The Wrong Man"

98 (7)

III THE TRUSTED HAND

14 Jarvis Of The Yard

105 (4)

15 "A Young Man Of Rare Ability"

109 (10)

16 "The Animal Spirits Within"

119 (11)

17 Flora Eliza Brooks

130 (1)

18 Student No. 2016

130 (13)

19 A Premature Death

143 (4)

20 The Licentiate

147 (5)

21 Catharine Hutchinson Gardner

152 (9)

22 By Some Person Unknown

161 (10)

IV INQUEST

23 Missing Links

171 (12)

24 Resurrection

183 (10)

V CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

25 Mary Anne Matilda Faulkner

193 (13)

26 "Pure Cream"

206 (7)

27 Ellen Stack And Sarah Alice Montgomery

213 (10)

28 A Despicable Scheme

223 (3)

29 Daniel Stott

226 (9)

30 "Crooked Cream"

235 (9)

31 Inmate No. 4374

244 (13)

32 "As Innocent As The Child Unborn"

257 (8)

33 Chasing Shadows

265 (8)

VI "JACK THE POISONER"

34 "A Systematic And Deliberate Course Of Action"

273 (13)

35 "A Murder So Diabolical"

286 (4)

36 "Insane In No Legal Sense"

290 (11)

37 Dead Man's Walk

301 (4)

38 "I Am Jack ..."

305 (7)

Epilogue: "An Elizabethan Tragedy of Horrors" 312 (11)

Cast of Characters 323 (6)

Acknowledgments 329 (4)

Sources 333 (70)

Index 403