\u201cA tour de force of storytelling.\u201d \u2014Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series \u201cJobb\u2019s excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read.\u201d \u2014The New York Times Book Review \u201dWhen a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,\u201d Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. \u201cHe has nerve and he has knowledge.\u201d 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\u2019s London murder trial in 1892, when he was finally brought to justice, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, 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 traces Dr. Cream\u2019s life through Canada and Chicago and finally to London, where new investigative tools called forensics were just coming into use, even as most police departments still scoffed at using science to solve crimes. But then, most investigators could hardly imagine that serial killers existed\u2014the term was unknown. As the Chicago Tribune wrote, Dr. Cream\u2019s crimes marked the emergence of a new breed of killer: one who operated without motive or remorse, who \u201cmurdered simply for the sake of murder.\u201d For fans of Erik Larson\u2019s The Devil in the White City, all things Sherlock Holmes, or the podcast My Favorite Murder, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream is an unforgettable true crime story from a master of the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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