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In 1910, Edwardian England was scandalised by a murder. A mild-mannered American named Hawley Crippen had killed his wife and buried her remains in the cellar of their North London home. He then went on the run with his young mistress. A Scotland Yard inspector, already famous for his part in the Ripper investigation, discovered the murder and launched an international hunt for Crippen which climaxed in a trans-Atlantic chase between two ocean liners. The chase itself was novel, but what captured the imagination of the world's public was the role played by a new and little understood technology: the wireless, invented by Guglielmo Marconi. Police, jurists and editors of the time all agreed that if not for Marconi, Crippen would have escaped. But Marconi had struggled to gain acceptance for his invention as a practical technology. It was the Crippen case that helped convince the world of the potential of his miracle technology...
| ISBN-13 | 9781846329340 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1846329345 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 592 pages |
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| Published On | 2007-01-03 |
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