The wicked boy : an infamouse murder in Victorian London
Summerscale, Kate, 1965-2017
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Total copies: 4
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his 12-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family in Liverpool. Over the next ten days Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their parents' valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. But as the sun beat down on the Coombes house, a strange smell began to emanate from the building. When the police were called to investigate, the discovery they made sent the press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a criminal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the 'penny dreadful' novels that Robert loved to read. Kate Summerscale uncovers a true story of murder and morality.
Main title:
The wicked boy : an infamouse murder in Victorian London / Kate Summerscale.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Collation:
378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408851166 (pbk)1408851164 (pbk)9781408851135 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
364.1523 SUM364.1523
LC class:
HV9067.H6
Language:
English
Subject:
Coombes, Robert, 1882-1949 -- Childhood and youthCoombes, Nathaniel, 1883-1946 -- Childhood and youthCoombes, Robert, 1882-1949 -- Trials, litigation, etcCoombes, Nathaniel, 1883-1946 -- Trials, litigation, etcJuvenile homicide -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centuryMurder -- Investigation -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centuryCrimeCrime
BRN:
301781