num_pages: 288
description: Between 1788 and 1790 a bizarre serial attacker known as the London Monster assaulted more than 50 women in the capital. During his two-year reign of terror the London Monster became a psychopathic celebrity, both celebrated and condemned in plays, newspapers and caricatures. The farcical search for the Monster culminated in the arrest and trial of a young Welshman named Rhynwick Williams, who, despite good alibis, was condemned. The story has remarkable parallels to our time: a police force unable to find its man, a tabloid press frenzy that sold newspapers and generated a climate of fear, and a need to convict someone at all costs, even if the evidence was questionable…
language: English
title: The London Monster: Terror on the Streets in 1790
titlecomplete: The London Monster: Terror on the Streets in 1790
genres: Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Nonfiction, 18th Century, Crime, History, True Crime
ratings_count: 124
publisher: Tempus Publishing Ltd.