EAN: 9781526660503

SUMMERSCALE KATE THE PEEPSHOW

In March 1953  London police discovered 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 found
another body beneath the floorboards  then an array of human bones in the garden. They launched
a nationwide manhunt for the tenant of the ground-floor flat  a softly spoken former policeman
called Reg Christie.  The story was an instant sensation. The star reporter Harry Procter
chased after the scoop on Christie. The eminent crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begged her
editor to let her cover the case. To Harry and Fryn  Christie seemed a new kind of murderer: he
was vacant  impersonal  a creature of a brutish post-war world. Christie liked to watch women 
they discovered  and he liked to kill them. They realised that he might also have engineered a
terrible miscarriage of justice. On Christie's evidence  another man had hanged three years
earlier for a double murder in 10 Rillington Place.  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. What she finds
sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime  and suggests a new
solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century.

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