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by Edna E. Gammon (Author)
A killer hiding in plain sight.
A house steeped in horror.
And an innocent man hanged for crimes he didn't commit.
In the grim, postwar streets of Notting Hill, one ordinary house concealed the unspeakable.
At 10 Rillington Place, John Christie - soft-spoken, unassuming - lured women into his home, only to strangle them and hide their bodies in cupboards, floorboards, and gardens. But the darkest chapter came when Timothy Evans, a young, vulnerable neighbour, was wrongfully hanged for crimes Christie had committed.
This chilling true story delves into:
Christie's secret life as a serial killer beneath a veneer of respectability
The gross failings of the British justice system, culminating in a wrongful execution
The impact on a nation, which was forced to confront the fallibility of capital punishment
The women whose voices were silenced, and how their stories were nearly lost
Meticulously researched and grippingly written, 10 Rillington Place is not just a portrait of a killer - it's a haunting exploration of how institutional failure and social indifference allowed evil to flourish.
Part of the Fatal Secrets true crime series.
Author Biography
Edna Gammon was born in Liverpool, the youngest of six children of a dock labourer; her father was killed in an accident on the docks in 1930 when she was a little girl. From the age of nine she attended Notre Dame Convent, where the nuns praised her for her English compositions and told her her skill with words would come in useful one day. After taking an office job with Woolworths, Edna worked for many years as a secretary. She and her mother shared a fascination for true crime stories and followed each case with great interest. The two women studied every detail of the 10 Rillington Place murders at the time and kept newspaper cuttings from the period. Her mother's idea of writing a book about the case never saw fruition, but after her death Edna decided to write her own book on the subject, in her mother's memory. She says her mother was always in her thoughts while she was working on the book.
