Table of Contents
A Note to Readers xv
Prologue: Ghosts 1
I "The First of Criminals"
1 "A Great Sin-Stricken City" 11
2 "Detective-Fever" 20
3 Ellen Donworth 28
4 Matilda Clover 33
5 "A Human 'Were-Wolf"' 39
II The Lambeth Poisoner
6 Louisa Harvey 47
7 Blackmail 51
8 "A Bad Man with No Refinement" 59
9 Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivell 66
10 Bitter Medicine 71
11 "A Strange Customer" 83
12 The Suspect 91
13 "You Have Got the Wrong Man" 98
III The Trusted Hand
14 Jarvis of the Yard 105
15 "A Young Man of Rare Ability" 109
16 "The Animal Spirits Within" 119
17 Flora Eliza Brooks 130
18 Student No. 2016 136
19 A Premature Death 143
20 The Licentiate 147
21 Catharine Hutchinson Gardner 152
22 By Some Person Unknown 161
IV Inquest
23 Missing Links 171
24 Resurrection 183
V Crimes and Punishment
25 Mary Anne Matilda Faulkner 193
26 "Pure Cream" 206
27 Ellen Stack and Sarah Alice Montgomery 213
28 A Despicable Scheme 223
29 Daniel Stott 226
30 "Crooked Cream" 235
31 Inmate No. 4374 244
32 "As Innocent as the Child Unborn" 257
33 Chasing Shadows 265
VI "Jack the Poisoner"
34 "A Systematic and Deliberate Course of Action" 273
35 "A Murder So Diabolical" 286
36 "Insane in No Legal Sense" 290
37 Dead Man's Walk 301
38 "I Am Jack …" 305
Epilogue: "An Elizabethan Tragedy of Horrors" 312
Cast of Characters 323
Acknowledgments 329
Sources 333
Index 402
Maps
Thomas Neill Cream's London, 1891-92 14
Cities/Towns Where Cream Lived or Killed 106