The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders - Hardcover

In 1880, with London's poverty-stricken Limehouse district being terrorized by a series of brutal murders, Elizabeth Cree is on trial for the poisoning of her husband, but she may also be the one person who knows the truth about the killings. By the author of Hawksmoor.

tar returns with an addictive tale of  murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is  "our most exciting and original writer... one of  the few English writers of his generation who will  be read in a hundred years' time." --  The Sunday Times (London) The  Trial Of Elizabeth Cree is without a  doubt Peter Ackroyd's breakout book. It has all the  erudition and literary brilliance we expect of  Ackroyd, yet it is as vivid, scary, and spellbinding  as the best of Edgar Allan Poe. The year is 1880,  the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse  district, home to immigrants and criminals. A  series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd  leads us down London's dark streets, the sense of  time and place becomes overwhelmingly immediate  and real. We experience the sights and sounds of the  E