Thunderstruck
Larson, Erik
Thunderstruck / Erik Larson - New York : Crown Publishers , c2006. - ix, 463 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Maps on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-443) and index.
The mysterious passengers -- Ghosts and gunfire -- Betrayal -- Secrets -- An inspector calls -- The finest time -- Pursuit by thunder -- Epilogue: into the ether.
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife and tried to escape London on a ship to America in the early twentieth century. He was caught in part due to the new invention of the wireless by Guglielmo Marconi, which was used on the ship. Larson draws from letters, memoirs, Scotland Yard reports, and other documents in telling the story and filling in its historical context of the Edwardian era.
9781400080663
Crippen, Hawley Harvey , 1862-1910
Murderers---England---London----Biography
Murder---Case studies---England---London
Murder---Investigation---Case studies---Great Britian
Telegraph, wireless---- Marconi system -- History.
364.1523 LAR
Thunderstruck / Erik Larson - New York : Crown Publishers , c2006. - ix, 463 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Maps on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-443) and index.
The mysterious passengers -- Ghosts and gunfire -- Betrayal -- Secrets -- An inspector calls -- The finest time -- Pursuit by thunder -- Epilogue: into the ether.
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife and tried to escape London on a ship to America in the early twentieth century. He was caught in part due to the new invention of the wireless by Guglielmo Marconi, which was used on the ship. Larson draws from letters, memoirs, Scotland Yard reports, and other documents in telling the story and filling in its historical context of the Edwardian era.
9781400080663
Crippen, Hawley Harvey , 1862-1910
Murderers---England---London----Biography
Murder---Case studies---England---London
Murder---Investigation---Case studies---Great Britian
Telegraph, wireless---- Marconi system -- History.
364.1523 LAR
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