The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

by Dean Jobb

In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedent. Poison was his weapon of choice. Largely forgotten today, this villain was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper. Structured around the doctor’s London murder trail in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled interrogations, corrupt officials, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Dr. Cream to prey on vulnerable and desperate women, many of whom had turned to him for medical help.

Dean Jobb transports readers to the late nineteenth century as Scotland Yard investigates Dr. Cream’s life through Canada and Chicago and finally to London, where new forensic tools were just coming into use, even as most police departments still scoffed at using science to solve crimes. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream is an unforgettable true crime story from a master of the genre.

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