Death in the Air
The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
by Kate Winkler Dawson
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in True Crime, History, and Nonfiction.
A reallife thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five lon...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in True Crime, History, and Nonfiction.
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Talia Lavin
“@spindlypete the book "death in the air" by kate dawson about the london smog and also about a serial killer operating during it was INCREDIBLE (like devil and the white city its clear the author's real interest is in smog legislation, leavened with a bit of murder most foule)”
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