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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

Dean Jobb

'The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream' takes readers to the late 19th century as Scotland Yard follows the trail of a cold-blooded serial killer, Canadian doctor Thomas Neill Cream, who was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper and who would finally be brought to justice by detectives employing a new science called forensics. Dean Jobb lives in Halifax, NS. From the author of 'Empire of Deception', which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime Book and was a finalist for three Atlantic Canada book awards.

True Crime & JusticeTrue Crime & Justice · medium confidenceTrue Crime & Justice81 signalsLlm Classifier: True Crime & Justice -> True Crime & JusticeKeyword Classifier: Medicine & Public Health -> Medicine & Public HealthKeyword Classifier: Science -> ScienceScience & DiscoveryCrime, Policing & ViolenceEmpire & ColonialismMedicine, Health & the Body

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionMajor2022LonglistOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Thomas Neill Cream92%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Halifax42%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.