n June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection,...
Search Results
Search found 3 item
-
Author: Summerscale, KateSummary: -
Author: Summerscale, KateSummary:Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a...
-
Author: Summerscale, KateSummary:
From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of "everyday madness", The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have...
Genre: History and geography, Psychology