Ebook Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City

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Listening Length: 9 hours and 30 minutes

Program Type: Audiobook

Version: Unabridged

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Audible.com Release Date: October 20, 2017

Whispersync for Voice: Ready

Language: English, English

ASIN: B076KJ5XDK

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This book interweaves accounts of the likely murders committed by serial killer John Reginald Christie with the blanketing, sulfuric fog that hit London in 1952 and the tragedy the fog brought into the lives of some individuals. Author Kate Dawson alternates the fabrics of these three grim and grimy narratives, so you get a patch of this – then a patch of that. Sometimes this technique might leave the reader feeling a little frustrated, dangling on the end of one too many cliffhangers, as in the old “Perils of Pauline” silent film shorts. Christie seems about to strike – then we get switched to a debate in Parliament about how the fog's affects could be mitigated.The fog and the Christie murders don't really have anything to do with each other. Christie didn't commit his murders under cover of the fog. But together, these reports do paint an interesting picture of the struggles of post-war England. This is a good book to have in your library, but I feel it could have used a little more editing. Here are some of the details of style and content that tripped me up a bit:There's a lot of repetition here. Several dozen times we read how the fog was “creeping, insinuating, curling in” everywhere. After about the twentieth time of reading that the smog was slithering its way through every crack and crevice, I felt like calling out, “Enough already! I get it!”Dawson oddly uses first names when writing about some people, then changes to the more formal, distancing use of last names when she writes about other people. It's disturbing to see Christie consistently and cozily referred to as “Reg.” It's as if someone writing about the life and crimes of John Wayne Gacy continuously referred to him as “John-boy.” It conveys the wrong affect. But Dawson's decisions about how to refer to all the individuals in the book are puzzling. Policeman are always given their designating initials (DCI, PC, etc.) and then are referred to by their last names. Doctors are most often referred to by their first names. Liberal MP's such as Labour Party leader Norman Dodds are almost always referred to as “Norman,” whereas Conservative MP Harold Macmillan is always “Macmillan.”There is perhaps a somewhat unwarranted Liberal bias here. Conservative leaders Macmillan, Churchill, and the up-and-coming Margaret Thatcher, are portrayed as the bad guys. Dawson does end up making a case that the Tory Government's attitude toward the thousands of smog deaths was cavalier and indifferent. But it's hard to see what anyone could have been done in the moment. As Dawson herself admits, Britain was forced to export its good coal to help pay its staggering national debt in the wake of the War. That left only the dirty “nutty slack” to be made available to the majority of householders to use as coal fuel.I wish Dawson had spent more time describing the weather conditions that contributed to this deadly smog. I would have liked to better understand how “anticyclones' played a roll – how cold weather capped the smoke being generated by the myriad coal-burning homes and industries.I also sort of wish Dawson had used this book as the occasion to do a little sleuthing on her own rather than just reporting the crimes in straight, police-blotter fashion. Indeed it seems possible there were some threads of clues she might have followed. For example, in one of several slightly confusing flashback accounts given here, Dawson tells about the alleged crimes committed by another inhabitant of 10 Rillington place – the either hapless or vicious (depending on how you look at it) Tim Evans who lived with his wife and baby in the flat above Christie. Several years before the worst spate of Christie's killings, the Evans wife and baby had been found dead in the building's wash-house. There followed a long series of contradictory confessions and recantations by everyone involved. However, Tim Evans ended on the note of accusing Christie of having killed his wife and baby. When prosecution showed how the dead baby had been found with a striped tie wrapped around its neck, Evans denied ever having owned a striped tie, and it seems that at the moment at least, this part of his testimony was taken at face value. However, there starring us in the face in Dawson's photo section of the book – we see Tim Evans standing with his wife and baby in happier times, wearing a vividly striped tie! It's the Bruno Magli shoes all over again.Finally, I wish Dawson had given more credit to the movie 10 Rillington Place. She dismisses it in a footnote as an “advocacy piece.” Actually, I found it to be a riveting work with brilliant acting by Richard Attenborough and John Hurt. However right or wrong the movie is in its stand about the guilt of Tim Evans, it does bring Christie searingly to life, in all his sinister, suggestive softness.But all the above are relatively minor faults in this generally good book. Dawson transports us back to the life of many average working people everywhere in the 1950's – with the coal chutes - the still numerous outhouses – the need to go down the street to the home of the one relative who had a TV set - the criminal trials in which investigation, conviction, and execution, all took place within a matter of weeks - the general lack of people's connectedness. It all will probably make you glad to be living now, rather than back in what were, for many, those even meaner times.

Excellent true story about the strangling of thousands of people from air pollution and a serial killer in the 1940s and 1950s in the UK. Kate Winkler Dawson weaves these two stories that occurred at the same time together well. She humanizes the victims and pays extra attention to the details of their lives in a way that makes the reader/listener care about them. Graeme Malcom is a gem to listen to and having a Brit narrate a British story was an important choice. It was also interesting to see the parallels of the British government debating the cause of the London Smog and minimizing the effect of it for years with current government officials minimizing similar atrocities. The book is well worth a read or listen as you learn about John Reginald Christie and the Great London Smog. I have both the Kindle and Audible versions.

An account of two killers who struck London in December of 1952. One was front page news and readily discussed in Parliament. An unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, seemingly an invalid but who still managed to kill and dispose of several women over a period of years. The second wiped out thousands, but was largely ignored in Parliament except for by the dogged insistence of MP Norman Dodds. The weather plus the pollution of December 1952 turned the ordinary London fog into a mixture that killed many thousands. This is the story of how one made more news than the other, and how both impacted English laws.This was a fascinating read. It is a bit horrifying how the government turned a blind eye to how horrible coal was for the environment for so long because it wasn't convenient for their economic plans. Yikes! But there is ultimately hope in that people like Dodds can force the government to do what is right by refusing to give up championing a cause. This story is the start of the story of bettering the air quality of England. Change didn't happen quickly at all, but it eventually did start. I liked that the author chose to tell this story mostly through the stories of everyday people. She interviewed and tells about the smog from the viewpoint of a young teen, a cop on the streets, a doctor, and Norman Dodds. It does mean you have to keep track of more people as the book bounces between the smog and Christie's stories, but in the end it makes it more memorable for being told from the viewpoint of people who lived it. This book is also quite the commentary on how sensationalism is what makes news and how what makes news influences the government. The Christie case was most interesting in the way that it impacted the death sentence in England. Recommended to those interested in true crime, the way government policies are changed, and environmental history.Notes on content: Just a couple minor swears in quotations. Christie liked to kill his victims either during intercourse or violate them after he killed them. That is related matter of factly, like you'd read in a newspaper. The Christie killings are all strangulations, so not bloody but cold and brutal. Several agonizing deaths from the smog are related and deadly crashes because of the fog are also related.

I grew up in the west London suburbs in the 50's. This is a very accurate description of the awful yellow/green fogs we called pea soupers. I used to make pocket money guiding automobiles down the road with a torch (flashlight), the forward visibility was under 10 feet. I can't remember any government health warnings, but soon after we were prohibited from burning coal and could only burn coke. I remember the phrase "nutty slack" but all I remember is burning anthracite coal. The coal man delivered the coal in 112lb (hundredweight) sacks, we had a separate coal bunker outside the house and it was my chore to go fill the coal bucket in the evenings.I highly recommend this book as an example of working folks lives in the London winters. I also remember the news articles on Christie, but as a child I knew very few of the details.

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