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020			_a9781400080663
082	0		_a364.1523 LAR
100	1		_aLarson, Erik
245	1	0	_aThunderstruck _c/ Erik Larson
260			_aNew York _b: Crown Publishers _c, c2006.
300			_aix, 463 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
500			_aMaps on endpapers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 437-443) and index.
505	0	0	_aThe mysterious passengers -- Ghosts and gunfire -- Betrayal -- Secrets -- An inspector calls -- The finest time -- Pursuit by thunder -- Epilogue: into the ether.
520			_aDr. 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.
600	1	4	_aCrippen, Hawley Harvey _d, 1862-1910
650		4	_aMurderers _z-England _z-London _v--Biography
650		4	_aMurder _z-England _z-London _x-Case studies
650		4	_aMurder _x-Investigation _z-Great Britian _x-Case studies
650		4	_aTelegraph, wireless _x-- Marconi system -- History.
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