![]() ![]() It was the Crippen case that helped convince the world of the potential of Marconi's miracle technology, so accelerating the revolution that eventually produced the modern means of communication we take for granted today. Thanks to its inventor Marconi's obsessive fight to perfect his machine, the world was able to learn of events occurring in the middle of the Atlantic as they unfolded - something previously unthinkable. The chase itself was novel, but what captured the imagination was the role played by a new and little understood technology: the wireless. Mild-mannered American Hawley Crippen had killed his wife, buried her remains in the cellar of their North London home and then gone on the run with his young mistress, his secretary Ethel Le Neve.Ī Scotland Yard inspector, already famous for his part in the Ripper investigation, discovered the murder and launched an international hunt for Crippen that climaxed in a trans-Atlantic chase between two ocean liners. In 1910, Edwardian England was scandalized by a murder. it shows how tiny lives may occasionally become caught up in the wonders of the age' GUARDIAN 'A big, bold approach to the writing of narrative non-fiction. Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, which examines how Winston Churchill and his 'Secret Circle' went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. ![]()
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