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Death in the air, the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city, Kate Winkler Dawson

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Death in the air, the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city, Kate Winkler Dawson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Death in the air

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

972386024

Responsibility statement

Kate Winkler Dawson

Sub title

the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city

Summary

In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a braided narrative that draws on extensive interviews, never-before-published material, and archival research, Dawson captivatingly recounts the intersecting stories of the these two killers and their longstanding impact on modern history

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Pressure -- Blackout -- Restrained -- Trapped -- Bodies in the mist -- Postmortem -- Smothered -- Hearth and home -- Squeezed -- Buried -- Illumination -- Infamous -- Legacy -- Epilogue

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