A passion for poison : a true story : serial killer, poisoner, schoolboy
Lee, Carol Ann2021
Book
There are few criminal cases more astonishing yet less well-known than that of Graham Young. A quintessentially British crime story, it involves two sensational trials, murders both certain and probable, a clutch of forgiving relatives, and scores of surviving victims. 'A Passion for Poison' tells the absorbing life of master poisoner, Graham Young, who killed many tens of people in a murderous career, which began as a 13 year-old schoolboy in a North-west London suburb, with the murder of his step-mother in 1960 before culminating in four further life sentences in 1971. Carol Ann Lee takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through suburban streets with which we are all familiar, but where the commonplace - dull, even - soon becomes oppressively sinister.
Main title:
Author:
Lee, Carol Ann, author
Imprint:
London : John Blake Publishing, 2021.
Collation:
424 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781789464313 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.15234092364.152
Language:
English
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BRN:
732480