The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place
Language: English
Published by Penguin Press, 2025
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NY: Penguin Press, 2025. Hard Cover w/ DJ. First Printing (stated). 8vo, 296 pp. Bound in black and gray boards with blue titles, covers are clean and straight. Pages are clean, no names or markings and not Ex-Library.Unclipped DJ ($30.00) is clean and flawless, protected in Brodart archival mylar jacket. An attractive book with minimal signs of use (see images). Book and DJ condition: As new. "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, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ago, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?" Books are shipped quickly and securely packed in a new box with delivery confirmation.
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- Title
- The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place
- Author
- Summerscale, Kate
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0593653637
- ISBN 13
- 9780593653630
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Mystery, Non Fiction, True Crime
"An absorbing portrait of post-WWII London." --Booklist
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Named a Best Book of 2024 by FT * Nominated for the Women's prize for nonfiction * Winner of the 2025 ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction
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.
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