The Doctor in the Cellar: Hawley Harvey Crippen
A quiet North London house. A mild-mannered American doctor. His wife vanishes. Police dig up the cellar… and find a torso wrapped in his pajamas, soaked in poison.
Meanwhile, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen is already halfway across the Atlantic with his young mistress—dressed as a boy.
This is the true story of one of the most sensational crimes of the Edwardian era: the 1910 murder of Cora Crippen, the first criminal ever caught by wireless telegraphy, and a chase that gripped the world. From the discovery of the remains at 39 Hilldrop Crescent to the dramatic arrest on the SS Montrose and the…
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