Research Catalog

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.

Author

Dawson, Kate Winkler

Publication

• New York, NY : Hachette Books, 2017.
• ©2017

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Description

viii, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

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

• 1900-1999
• Christie, John Reginald Halliday
• Ecology
• England > London
• London (England) > Environmental conditions > 20th century
• London (England) > Social conditions > 20th century
• Serial murderers
• Serial murderers > London > Case studies
• Smog
• Smog > London > History > 20th century
• Social conditions

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• History
• True crime stories

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-333) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue -- Pressure -- Blackout -- Restrained -- Trapped -- Bodies in the mist -- Postmortem -- Smothered -- Hearth and home -- Squeezed -- Buried -- Illumination -- Infamous -- Legacy -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9780316506861
• 0316506869
• 9781478923138 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780316506854 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2017020079

OCLC

972386024

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library