No other writer could have made the Coombes case so fascinating and so vivid ... It would be impossible to read this dry-eyed Cressida Connelly Spectator
Kate Summerscale Libri
1 gennaio 1965
Kate Summerscale è un'autrice inglese celebrata per le sue narrazioni storiche meticolosamente ricercate e avvincenti. Possiede un talento notevole nello scoprire storie affascinanti, spesso trascurate, e nel portarle vividamente alla luce attraverso la sua acuta sensibilità letteraria. Il lavoro di Summerscale approfondisce le complessità del passato, intrecciando abilmente resoconti fattuali con esplorazioni illuminanti della motivazione umana e delle dinamiche sociali. Il suo distintivo approccio narrativo invita i lettori a immergersi in intricati misteri storici, rivelando le correnti più profonde dell'esperienza umana.
The extraordinary stroy of 'Joe' Carstairs, the fastest woman on waterThe Sunday Times bestseller
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
This award-winning book delves into a gripping true crime narrative that explores the complexities of a real-life criminal case. It combines meticulous research with compelling storytelling, revealing the intricate details of the events that unfolded. The author provides deep insights into the motivations behind the crime and the impact on the victims and their families, making it a poignant and thought-provoking read for fans of the genre.
When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake...In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the nineteenth century, Isabella Robinson's scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife's longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Or, The murder at Road Hill House
It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealously, loneliness and loathing.
From the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher comes a brand new true story of Victorian scandal
The extraordinary story of a 1930s ghost hunt, and the woman who confounded the world, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
The Peepshow
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid From Britain's top-selling true crime writer and author of Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER... 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, th[Bokinfo].
The Queen of Whale Cay - 4th
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Joe Carstairs was born in London in 1900, the daughter of a Scottish colonel and an American heiress. She was educated in Connecticut and returned to Europe in 1916, to drive ambulances for the Women's Legion in France. She deserted her husband at the church door (marriage having been a prerequisite of her coming into her $4 million inheritance) and settled in England, where she took up motor-boat racing, winning many trophies, and established a boatyard at Cowes.
