Description:
The Peepshow - Kate Summerscale - 2024
The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Nicola Walker
Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-03-24
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
From the Edgar Award–winning author of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London
In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy rowhouse 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 apartment, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. But they had already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place three years before, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?
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 postwar world. Christie liked to watch women, they discovered, and he liked to kill them. They realized that he might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice.
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.
©2024 Kate Summerscale (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing
Critic reviews
“Kate Summerscale’s multi-layered page-turner The Peepshow, which inverts the classic true crime structure, is masterful. The mystery is not who committed a series of murders in 1950s London but whether there had been a gross miscarriage of justice, as told through one tabloid reporter’s attempt to redeem himself by revealing it. It’s also an unflinching examination of the true crime industry—a look at the boundary between making visible the unseen and the exploitation of tragedy—and no one, not even the reader, escapes complicity.” —Becky Cooper, author of We Keep the Dead Close
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