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by: John Boyne
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312343590
ISBN: 0312343590
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: January 23, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Sales Rank: 81973
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.
Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun.
Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. Montrose has just set off on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner, anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed.
An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, Crippen brilliantly reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one of Ireland's best young novelists.
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Rating:  - Doesn't work as a novel
The saga of "Doctor" Crippen would have probably yielded a fine true crime story but simply does not click as a novel, at least this one doesn't. I'm certain that the renowned facts of this infamous murder case somewhat limited (perhaps unconsciously) the author's ability to use his imagination and think more outside of the box.
WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
The story here, based upon an actual account and dramatized, is about an American man who wanted to become a doctor but ... Read More
Rating: - not so good
I was unable to finish this book due to the fact that the plot was plodding and predictable. (after getting about halfway through I decided to read the last 5 or so pages.) There were no likable characters or relationships. Overall, I was bored.
Rating:  - "It's rotten to the core. A thing of beauty in itself"
Part murder mystery and part historical novel John Boyne's sensational Crippen: a Novel of Murder tells of the real Crippen murder case, which occurred in London in 1910. Boyne, in his story, beautifully brings to life this world in all its self-propriety grandeur, and in the process, emphasizes humanity's mordant desire to know the all the facts about the most macabre and chilling crimes such as this.
Boyne presents Crippen as a complex and enigmatic man - whom although painted as a ... Read More
Rating:  - Crippen
An absolutely brilliant effort. Tightly plotted, with characters that call to mind a long-past era, this is one of the best historically-based novels of the new millenium.
Rating:  - How did this guy ever win a literary prize?
On the basis of my interest in English murder mysteries, and because the Crippen case is a notorious one that is referenced often but that I've been unfamiliar with, I purchased this book. I'd hoped to learn about the case.
What I have learned so far, is that far from being a page turner, the book is a tiresome read. The fictionalization is more worthy of a poorly written romance novel than what one would assume would be a thriller. The characters are such unbelievable cliches (the ... Read More
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