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  • The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place
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The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Kate Summerscale (Author), Nicola Walker (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)
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“A trove of thrilling material . . . skillfully examines the racism, sexism, economic privation and class prejudices that permeated postwar England . . . There’s so much to admire in this engaging, deeply researched book.”—The New York Times Book Review

“An absorbing portrait of post-WWII London.ŨĔBǴǰ

*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Named a Best Book of 2024 by FT * Nominated for the Women's prize for nonfiction*

From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London

In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy rowhouse in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they found another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. They launched a nationwide manhunt for the tenant of the ground-floor apartment, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. But they had already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place three years before, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?

The story was an instant sensation. The star reporter Harry Procter chased after the scoop on Christie. The eminent crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begged her editor to let her cover the case. To Harry and Fryn, Christie seemed a new kind of murderer: he was vacant, impersonal, a creature of a brutish postwar world. Christie liked to watch women, they discovered, and he liked to kill them. They realized that he might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice.

In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie’s victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime—and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century.

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  1. Listening Length
    9 hours and 43 minutes
  2. Author
    Kate Summerscale
  3. Narrator
    Nicola Walker
  4. Audible release date
    May 6 2025
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Penguin Audio
  7. ASIN
    B0DFZH8YKX
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 9 hours and 43 minutes
Author Kate Summerscale
Narrator Nicola Walker
Audible.ca Release Date May 06 2025
Publisher Penguin Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0DFZH8YKX
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  • robert armstrong
    1.0 out of 5 stars The Peepshow: r[Kindle Edition] By: Kate Summerscale
    Reviewed in Australia on March 6, 2025
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    I ordered this book from AMAZON and it never arrived but 鶹 took the money-not impressed.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2024
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    In 1953, residents in Rillington Place, Notting Hill, were filled with horror when the bodies of three women were found concealed in a wall at number 10. This was followed by the discovery of another body beneath the floorboards and human bones in the garden. While there appeared to be no doubt that the tenant of the house, Reg Christie, was the killer, those with longer memories felt a sense of unease: three years earlier there had already been a double killing at this property and a man was convicted and hanged. Did they get the wrong man?

    The story of 10 Rillington Place is one of the most well-known in British crime history yet in The Peepshow, Kate Summerscale has managed to tell the story from a whole new perspective, unearthing fascinating information in the process. This is not simply a retelling of what is already an infamous series of killings but instead, a look at the case from the eyes of others who were involved. By telling the story from the view of Harry Procter, a tenacious reporter, we see a completely different side of the case and also how determined he was to see justice for Timothy Evans, the man who was accused of the murder of his wife and daughter three years earlier.

    As in all of Kate Summerscale’s books, this is incredibly well researched, the author giving us a great insight into life in 1950s Notting Hill. What I found particularly fascinating was her research into prostitution at that time. Sex workers are traditionally portrayed as women compelled to sell their bodies out of desperation but here we see women in control of their own lives, earning more money than they would in other place of work. Of course, we also see the flip side with some of the women finding themselves never leaving 10 Rillington Place.

    If you are expecting a definitive answer as to whether Tim Evans did, indeed, kill his wife and daughter or whether their deaths were at the hands of Christie, you will not find in in The Peepshow. What Kate Summerscale has done is provide the evidence in a thought-provoking way, leaving you to weigh up the options yourself.

    Ever since reading The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, I have always eagerly anticipated anything else by Kate Summerscale and in The Peepshow, she has written another top notch book.
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  • Sherlock
    5.0 out of 5 stars The background to the case
    Reviewed in Belgium on April 10, 2025
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    This is not a definitive account of the Rillington Place murders; that aspect has been covered by previous authors. Instead this book describes the victims of Christie and those who had narrow escapes with a level of sympathetic detail not found in the earlier works on the case. The coverage of the case by Harry Procter, star reporter of the Sunday Pictorial, showed that the amorality of gutter journalism is not a new phenomenon. The more restrained writings of Fryn Tennyson Jesse, also covered here, provide a counterbalance.
    Above all, the book paints a drab, grey picture of post-war life in the slums of North Kensington. As such it is a valuable, well-written addition to the earlier books by Eddowes (senior), Kennedy and Oates. Recommended.
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  • John D. Cofield
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Crime's Long Legacy
    Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2025
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    Kate Summerscale is a highly accomplished author of accounts of historical crimes, especially murders. When I see her name on a book I buy it immediately, because I know I will be reading a well written history, impeccably documented, that holds my interest to the very last page.

    Reg Christie is one of those names which reverberate through the history of British crimes. He was a seemingly inconsequential sort who lived with his wife in a flat in a cramped little house in a rundown and crime ridden section of London in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Christie had a secret life: he enjoyed taking nude pictures of women, drugging them and then molesting them and sometimes strangling them. Over more than a decade he murdered a number of victims, culminating with his own wife in late 1952.

    When Christie's crimes were uncovered a surprising link appeared with another murder that had taken place in the same small dirty house a few years earlier. The husband of that earlier victim had been arrested and eventually hanged. Now, with Christie's crimes uncovered at leasts, the question was whether or not he had also been responsible for the earlier crime.

    Summerscale's story gives a good picture of life in one of the poorer sections of post war London and of the sensational coverage which crimes received at the hands of a competitive national press. The story of Reg Christie and his murders is a nasty one, but even so it is fascinating to read, thanks to Summerscale's fine writing and research.
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  • Joe Ranchel
    5.0 out of 5 stars More than just a murder story
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2025
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    This is the story of Reg Christie a serial killer in England. The time line spans from WW1 all the way to the near present but concentrates on the 1950’s , particularly 1953 when Christie was caught. The author gives the reader a good look at that time - the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the ascent of Mount Everest, the deadly fog ( another good book by the same name ) prostitution, economic and social conditions ( especially for women ) how the courts worked ( or didn’t) and immigration. While Christie was charged with one murder he likely killed 7 more and we are given a look into the lives of each one so they’re not just victims. Reg Christie and the case was a jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing and the author did a fine job of filling the holes and putting it back together. The book is plainly written and moves quickly but you feel the horror and sadness in full.
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