Devil's Work, The [electronic resource] : Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the world
Garry Linnell2021
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He was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper
killings.
Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world.
Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years
roaming the planet under various aliases, preying on the innocent, the gullible
and the desperate.
But the discovery by Australian police in 1892 of the body of one of his wives
in a shallow concrete grave triggered one of the greatest manhunts in history
and exposed a further series of grisly murders - those of his first wife and
four children - that stunned the Victorian era.
The Devil's Work is a gothic journey into the twisted mind of a serial killer,
set in the dying years of the 19th century when science and religion had
collided and some of the world's most powerful and influential people believed
in spirits and an afterlife.
It reveals Deeming's crime spree across three continents, raising fresh
questions about his role in the Jack the Ripper k...
Main title:
Author:
Garry Linnell, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Random House Australia, 2021
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (315 MB, 11:28:43 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Peter Phelps
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781761046124
Language:
English
BRN:
438871
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