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The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London

by Kate Summerscale

In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London — for ten days in July, they ate out at coffee houses and took trips to the seaside and the theater. The boys told neighbors they had been left home alone while their mother visited family in Liverpool, but their aunt

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9780143110460