The greatest villain who ever stood trial at the Old Bailey, as Charles Dickens described him William Palmer was convicted in 1856 of murdering his best friend, but was suspected of poisoning more than a dozen other people, including his wife and children. He was a new kind of murderer respectable, middle class, and consequently more terrifying, Britain s most infamous figure until Jack the Ripper. The Poisoner takes the reader into the very psyche of a killer
- ISBN10 0715647504
- ISBN13 9780715647509
- Publish Date 1 July 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 October 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Overlook Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English
- URL https://allenandunwin.com/browse/books/9780715647509