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The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811

The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811

by Baroness P . D . James (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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    Paperback 1987

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Synopsis

In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake through his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or the eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders? Drawing on contemporary records and newspaper cuttings, for example, the authors make a reconstruction of events.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 274
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0571202829
ISBN 13: 9780571202829

Author Bio
P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors.She lives in London and Oxford and has two daug