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The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
Authors and Contributors      By (author) P. D. James
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 127
Category/GenreTrue Crime
ISBN/Barcode 9780571258086
ClassificationsDewey:364.152309421
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 4 November 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? In this vivid and gripping reconstruction P. D. James and T. A. Critchley draw on public records, newspaper clippings and hitherto unpublished sources, expertly sifting the evidence to shed new light on this infamous Wapping mystery.

Author Biography

P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London.