Category: Crime Publisher: Les MacDonald and Tristan MacDonald
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 239
Copyright: January 14, 2014
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
The first in the They Walk Among Us true crime series.
They Walk Among Us: Serial Killers is the first in a series of true crime kindle ebooks. This one contains 25 stories on some of the worst serial killers of our time. Many of the usual suspects are here such as Jack the Ripper, BTK, Ted Bundy and the Son of Sam etc. but there are also some that you may not have heard of suchas the Texas Eyeball Killer, the Dating Game Killer and Joachim Kroll.
Excerpt
From Chapter One: Jack the Ripper...
Whitechapel, England 1888: English football was in its early stages. Preston North End won the FA Cup and the 1888-89 British Home Championship was won by Scotland when they defeated the host England 3-2 in the championship match. Robert Gascoyne Cecil was the Prime Minister from 1886-92. Queen Victoria was fifty years into her reign which would not end until her death in 1901. In the latter part of the 19th century the east end of London was in a bad way. In stark contrast to the west side which was home to most of London’s elite, the east end was where the very fringes of society lurked. Factory work did not pay enough to cover the bills and many single women were forced into prostitution just to make ends meet. Diseases such as typhoid fever and cholera were prevalent due to the worst unsanitary conditions imaginable. To say that the Whitechapel of the 1880’s suffered from extreme poverty would be a gross understatement. While the west end and indeed the rest of England ignored it, the east end sank into a cesspool of depravity, disease and degradation. It was in this environment that one of the most infamous serial killers of all time would thrive. Jack the Ripper was about to begin his reign of terror.
PI novel set in Manhattan during the 1980s when art galleries and model agencies were the two most glamorous businesses in the world. Dangerously well written.
Read Chapter 1 here: https://www.lit4u.com/art-and-beauty-chapter-1/
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