In her debut book, The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London (Metropolitan Books, 2004), Sarah Wise unravels a riveting story of the “Italian Boy,” a young orphan, later revealed to be Carlo Ferrari, murdered by “resurrection men” in order that his body might be sold to one of London’s many medical …
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The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale
In her award-winning book The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London (Penguin Books, 2017), Kate Summerscale provides a vivid narrative of the life of Robert Allen Coombes, who at age thirteen murdered his mother in her sleep. Born in 1882, Coombes and his younger brother Nattie spent most of their childhood in the …
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