The Crimes At Rillington Place: A Novelist's Reconstruction
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and rubbing to edges and corners. No visible tears but general shelf wear apparent. Page Condition: Likely yellowed given age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact.
A gripping work of true crime narrative, The Crimes at Rillington Place reconstructs one of Britain's most chilling and notorious murder cases — the serial killings committed by John Reginald Halliday Christie at 10 Rillington Place, London, in the 1940s and 1950s. Written with the narrative flair of a seasoned novelist, John Newton Chance chronicles the horrifying sequence of events that saw Christie murder multiple women, and the catastrophic miscarriage of justice that sent the innocent Timothy Evans to the gallows in his place. The account draws on court records, witness testimonies, and dramatic reconstruction to present an unflinching portrait of evil hidden in plain sight within a London tenement. Chance illustrates how systemic failures in the justice system allowed a calculating murderer to evade detection, making this a work as much about institutional accountability as it is about cold-blooded crime. Unsettling, meticulously detailed, and compellingly written, this reconstruction remains a landmark in British true crime literature.
Author: John Newton Chance
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Hodder & Stoughton, London
Genre: True crime
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and rubbing to edges and corners. No visible tears but general shelf wear apparent. Page Condition: Likely yellowed given age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact.
A gripping work of true crime narrative, The Crimes at Rillington Place reconstructs one of Britain's most chilling and notorious murder cases — the serial killings committed by John Reginald Halliday Christie at 10 Rillington Place, London, in the 1940s and 1950s. Written with the narrative flair of a seasoned novelist, John Newton Chance chronicles the horrifying sequence of events that saw Christie murder multiple women, and the catastrophic miscarriage of justice that sent the innocent Timothy Evans to the gallows in his place. The account draws on court records, witness testimonies, and dramatic reconstruction to present an unflinching portrait of evil hidden in plain sight within a London tenement. Chance illustrates how systemic failures in the justice system allowed a calculating murderer to evade detection, making this a work as much about institutional accountability as it is about cold-blooded crime. Unsettling, meticulously detailed, and compellingly written, this reconstruction remains a landmark in British true crime literature.