{"product_id":"peepshow-the-murders-at-rillington-place","title":"Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eReview Editors' Choice\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eNamed a Best Book of the year by\u003ci\u003e FT - \u003c\/i\u003eNominated for the Women's prize for nonfiction\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eWinner of the 2025 ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA trove of thrilling material . . . skillfully examines the racism, sexism, economic privation and class prejudices that permeated postwar England . . . There's so much to admire in this engaging, deeply researched book.\u003ci\u003e\" --The New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An absorbing portrait of post-WWII London\u003ci\u003e.\" --Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Edgar Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Alma Fielding\u003c\/i\u003e, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.","brand":"Kate Summerscale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52979518341484,"sku":"9780593653630","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9780593653630-us.jpg?v=1765466481","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/peepshow-the-murders-at-rillington-place","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}