The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale
Autor Jan Bondesonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2002
"The
facts
in
this
case
are
so
bizarre
that
no
novelist
would
have
dared
to
invent
them,"
said
thePhiladelphia
Inquirer.
Indeed.
A
century
before
Jack
the
Ripper
haunted
the
streets
of
London,
another
predator
held
sway:
a
"vulgar-looking
man"
who
slashed
at
female
pedestrians
with
a
knife
while
uttering
profanities
with
a
"tremulous
eagerness"—over
fifty
victims
during
a
two-year
crime
spree.
The
city
was
gripped
with
fear,
outrage,
and
"Monster
mania."
The
latter
was
abetted
by
a
£100
reward
and
by
the
circulation
of
bawdy
prints
that
capitalized
on
the
Monster's
tendency
to
slash
his
victims'
buttocks.
Armed
vigilantes
roamed
the
streets,
and
fashionable
ladies
dared
not
walk
outdoors
without
first
strategically
placing
cooking
pots
under
their
dresses.
Finally,
in
June
1790,
one
Rhynwick
Williams
was
arrested.
After
two
long
and
ludicrous
trials
(at
one
of
which
he
was
defended
energetically
by
the
eccentric
Irish
poet
Theophilus
Swift),
Williams
was
convicted.
Was
he
guilty?
Or
just
unlucky
enough
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
authorities
when
they
needed
someone
to
pay?
Drawing
on
contemporary
evidence
and
reinterpreting
Monster
mania
in
the
light
of
historical
and
modern
instances
of
mass
hysteria,
Jan
Bondeson
recounts
with
dry
wit
a
tale
that
occupies
a
unique
place
in
criminal
history
and
imagination.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780306811586
ISBN-10: 0306811588
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 143 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
ISBN-10: 0306811588
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 143 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
Notă biografică
Jan
Bondesonlives
and
works
in
London.