Michael Knox Beran's books include Forge of Empires, 1861-1871 and The Last Patrician, a study of Robert Kennedy that was a New York Times Notable Book. His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the National Review. He lives in Westchester County, New York.
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In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London that shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes—a brutal slaying in the gambling netherworld, the slaughter of two entire households, and the ... SEE MORE