num_pages: 261
description: The year is 1880, the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London's dark streets, the sense of time and place becomes overwhelmingly immediate and real. We experience the sights and sounds of the English music halls, smell the smells of London slums, hear the hooves of horses on the cobblestone streets, and attend the trial of Elizabeth Cree, a woman accused of poisoning her husband but who may be the one person who knows the truth about the murders.
language: English
title: The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
titlecomplete: The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
genres: Fiction, Historical, Gothic, Mystery, Thriller, British Literature, Horror, Historical Fiction, Crime, Victorian
ratings_count: 2472
places: Limehouse, London, England, London, England
publisher: Talese/Doubleday