At a time when forensics were just coming into use and the term "serial killer" had not entered our vocabulary, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States and Britain. Trading on his respectability while quietly poisoning lower-class women, he nearly got away with it. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, Dean Jobb's history exposes the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Dr. Cream to prey on vulnerable patients.

"A tour de force of storytelling…. This book is both chilling and thrilling."—Louise Penny