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Author Dawson, Kate Winkler, author.

Title Death in the air : the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city / Kate Winkler Dawson.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Hachette Books, 2017.
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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 DAWSON    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description viii, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index.
Contents Prologue -- Pressure -- Blackout -- Restrained -- Trapped -- Bodies in the mist -- Postmortem -- Smothered -- Hearth and home -- Squeezed -- Buried -- Illumination -- Infamous -- Legacy -- Epilogue.
Summary In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a braided narrative that draws on extensive interviews, never-before-published material, and archival research, Dawson captivatingly recounts the intersecting stories of the these two killers and their longstanding impact on modern history.
Subject Christie, John Reginald Halliday.
Christie, Reginald. (OCoLC)fst00341125
Serial murderers -- England -- London -- Case studies.
Smog -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
London (England) -- Environmental conditions -- 20th century.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Serial murderers. (OCoLC)fst01113110
Smog. (OCoLC)fst01121635
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
True crime stories.
ISBN 9780316506861 (hardcover)
0316506869 (hardcover)
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