The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

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The UK's top-selling true crime writer and author of the #1 bestseller, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, takes on the notorious 1950s murders at 10 Rillington Place Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime Val McDermid 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 A nationwide manhunt is launched for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. Star reporter Harry Procter chases after the scoop. Celebrated crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begs to be assigned to the case. The story becomes an instant sensation, and with the relentless rise of the tabloid press the public watches on like never before. Who is Christie Why did he choose to kill women, and to keep their bodies near him As Harry and Fryn start to learn the full horror of what went on at Rillington Place, they realise that Christie might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice in plain sight. In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christies 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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Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama starring Peter Capaldi and Olivia Colman. Her other books include The Queen of Whale Clay (inspired by an obituary she wrote for the Daily Telegraph), Mrs Robinsons Disgrace and The Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has judged several literary prizes, including the Booker Prize, and in 2010 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.