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 first ... SEE MORE