The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

“A tour de force of storytelling.” —Louise Penney, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Jobb’s excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read.” —New York Times Book Review

“A must for true crime fans.” —CNN

“Masterful…True crime doesn’t get any better than this.” —Booklist

“[Jobb] creates a nuanced portrait of Cream that’s much more chilling than Mr. Hyde.” —BookPage

One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021:The New York Times Book Review * BuzzFeed * CNN * CrimeReads * Book RiotOne of IndieWire's 10 Best Gifts for True Crime Fans One of The Washington Post's "50 Notable Works of Nonfiction" One of CrimeReads' "Best True Crime Books of 2021" “Jobb recounts Cream’s life and evokes the societal attitudes that allowed him to kill: the blind faith placed in doctors, the power imbalance between Cream and the people who sought his care.” —The New York Times “A deeply absorbing account of the life and deeds of one of the Ripper’s earliest ‘successors’ . . . An admirable piece of work, a model for its kind.” —The Wall Street Journal “[Dr. Thomas Neill Cream] will hauntingly occupy a space in your nightmares after you read of his life and crimes in The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream. An extraordinarily well-researched and arrestingly written work . . . this is a book that grabs you from its first sentence, weaving a suspenseful tale and taking readers on a grand, if gruesome, historical journey.” —Chicago Tribune “Jobb . . . re-creates Cream’s heartless life in short, highly dramatic chapters.”  —The Washington Post “If you've been hunting for your next true crime addiction this summer, Dean Jobb's The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream has it all: a serial-killer doctor, corrupt leaders, and a ground-breaking investigation by Scotland Yard, all within the spellbinding setting of London circa 1892.”  —Elle “True crime fans will want to pick up Dean Jobb’s engrossing account of Thomas Neill Cream . . . Jobb builds Cream’s world in vivid, transportive detail; I had a lot of fun being swept away.” —BuzzFeed, “28 Summer Books to Get Excited About”  “A must for true crime fans.” —CNN “A tour de force of storytelling. One of the best books I’ve read this year. Dean Jobb breathes new life into Cream's victims—who they were, where and how they lived—all the while blending in thorny issues of policing, of the fictional detectives being created, of the other serial killers on the loose. This book is both chilling and thrilling.”  —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series “The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream is a macabre, utterly suspenseful true crime thriller about a forgotten madman every bit as cunning and evil as Jack the Ripper. Dean Jobb combines scholarship with a breakneck narrative so relentless it kept me up all night. Warning: Read with the lights on.”—Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author (as Karen Abbott) of The Ghosts of Eden Park  “The story of the infamous poisoner Thomas Neill Cream is so many things—horrifying, fascinating, and insightful, a portrait of late 19th-century police work at a time when the idea of the professional detective was just starting to take shape. And in this vivid and compelling book, Dean Jobb does full justice to that story.”—Deborah Blum, New York Times bestselling author of The Poisoner’s Handbook “[Jobb] creates a nuanced portrait of Cream that’s much more chilling than Mr. Hyde.” —BookPage “Masterful . . . True crime doesn’t get any better than this.” —Booklist “[A] fascinating read.”—Oxygen.com, July Book Club Selection “Chilling and fascinating . . . Jobb’s true crime stories are not to be missed.” —CrimeReads “Jobb’s extensive research pays off in a true crime masterpiece that will easily sit alongside The Devil in the White City.”  —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Jobb richly embellishes his grim central tale with carefully researched setting, detail, and social mores of the late Victorian era, elegantly contrasted with his eponymous fiend, Thomas Neill Cream . . . A vivid, engaging revival of a forgotten Victorian villain.”  —Kirkus Reviews “An illuminating, if frightening, book . . . Jobb handles this hideous yet compelling story so well . . . An absorbing and grim account, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream is a gripping addition to the true crime genre.” —Bookreporter.com “Jobb uses Cream’s spree to illuminate the era’s surgical and policing practices, and despite Cream’s monstrousness, Jobb’s storytelling ‘makes the book a pleasure to read.’”—The Week   “[A] fascinating read.”—Oxygen.com “The graphically told tale of a notorious 19th-century slayer… Impressive.”—Washington Independent Review of Books “Jobb does a masterful job of following the investigation, which ranged from England to the United States to Canada, and of presenting Dr. Cream not merely as a murderer, but as a complex, unstable, and deeply fascinating individual. True crime doesn’t get any better than this.” —Booklist “Jobb’s research is excellent . . . [His] compelling account of Cream’s reign of terror will appeal to readers interested in Jack the Ripper or Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.”  —Library Journal “Engrossing . . . An informative and entertaining true crime text.” —Foreword Review “Jobb captures the hypocrisy, class differences, and gender inequality of the times in an extensively researched non-fiction telling of the forgotten nineteenth century serial killer Dr. Thomas Neill Cream . . . Both grim and hard to put down.” —Southern Bookseller Review “Dean Jobb’s meticulous research is evident on every page of his gripping study of the extraordinary serial killer Doctor Cream, a nineteenth century ‘monster of iniquity’ whose homicidal career was truly stranger than fiction.”—Martin Edwards, author of Mortmain Hall and the Lake District Mysteries —