Rillington Place

by Tim Coates (Editor)

There was a time before Fred West that the most gruesome, bone-chilling address in Britain was 10 Rillington Place. This squalid Notting Hill house in west London was the scene of some of the most infamous crimes of the century as it was the home of John Reginald Christie, a serial killer long before the phrase had been coined.

Genres: True Crime

296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

https://www.huffpost.com/author/tim-c...

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a true story about a court case involving a lower-class Englishwoman who was strangled to death along with her baby daughter. The two suspects are her husband and their landlord. The coolest part of this book is that it was pieced together from public documents from The Stationery Office in Britain. These mainly include eyewitness accounts, but it also has police and court documents. While it's not exactly a mystery, it's a fascinating case. The Stationery Office publishes other books that take the documentation of famous English court cases and puts them together, and I'd like to read more of them. I did read one other one, which was got me into this series in the first place. However, the Strange Story of Adolph Beck is much less exciting than its title promises.

[Jason · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh dear, I've found one of those 1* books. This could have been really interesting but the whole thing reads like a thesis that somebody has written for uni. It is boring, repetitive, repetitive and the author seems to keep changing his mind about who did what. Maybe, just maybe, if there were some photos, newspaper clippings or copies of evidence used in court it maybe have been more bearable, but nope, it was 269 pages of ramblings. Avoid this one and look for a different book on the case as it is quite interesting.